Coffee Head

My Very Worst Date was a guy I met on an online dating site. Right off, I had some reservations. His response to my ad sounded cut-and-pasted because he didn’t address his email to my screen name or mention anything specific about my ad. Also, he had only one picture in which he was holding a coffee cup near his head. However, he sounded normal and looked potentially cute though it was difficult to tell.

We met at a neighborhood bar in the afternoon. As soon as I saw him, I realized that the strategically-positioned coffee cup in the picture was to hide a very receding hairline. He said hello, asked me if I had biked there, then launched into a story about how he had been hit on his bike by a “rich couple” who had gotten out of paying his medical bills by taking the case to court. He then told me that he found the couple’s home address and, wielding a large wrench, asked, “What’s for dinner? You owe me.” He then intimidated the man into writing him a check for $5,000.

At this point I asked him if he had been wearing a helmet during this accident, thinking maybe a head injury was affecting him. Apparently this wasn’t the case. I considered getting up and leaving. I’ve handled my share of bad dates and was somewhat curious how much worse this one could get so I decided to stay and finish my one drink.

During the next twenty minutes, he proceeded to try to feel my leg several times, stood in the bar and lifted his shirt to show me his tattoos, told me about his last date who “throat-f**ked” him in her car and asked if I would do that. When he realized that he wasn’t getting anywhere, he got up and left without saying goodbye.

Comments (14)
LisaJune 9th, 2010 at 6:58 am

Oddly enough, I find his most egregious sin the pathetic attempt to camouflage his receding hairline.

What’s up with men’s stupid touchiness about hair loss? If you’re going bald, just get a micro crew cut and get over it. I always assume that habitual hat & cap wearers wear them only as a means to hide baldness. Yes–it effectively camouflages baldness, but it also proclaims to the world “I’m a vain and insecure pussy!”

Second worst sin: the proud reveal of tattoos. This proclaims ” I’m a sheep dressed in wolf’s clothing!”

wendyJune 9th, 2010 at 7:58 am

Just…wow. Total psycho. This, ladies, is why we meet for a drink instead of getting picked up at our homes (take note previous OPs!).

rawrJune 9th, 2010 at 8:40 am

I don’t get the weird attachment to hair either, even when it’s clearly not attached to the guy. Dude, if I started going bald for whatever reason, I’d shave my head. And it’s even less the norm for women to be bald than men. And I have an uneven, weird-shaped head. I’d rather have an even coat of naked skin showing off my weird, asymmetric skull and having to constantly dispel the assumption that I have cancer (I’ve heard this from a number of women who voluntarily shave their heads) than bald spots or uber-thin hair.

I wonder how much help this dude had in making his cut and paste email sound normal, or if he even wrote it himself. Or maybe he’s learned to sound normal over the internet, but his natural asshattery makes it impossible for him to apply it to himself in meatspace.

YGJune 9th, 2010 at 8:48 am

Sounds like Mr Man will be a bachelor forever, one of those weirdo 60 year olds who hang out in bars and make eyes at everything female that walks by, always thinking they should have a poem written in honour of their penis.

I guess when it was clear you weren’t going to put out, he decided you weren’t worth the effort! Schade.

RickJune 9th, 2010 at 9:06 am

I really really want to see the picture. I’m curious to see how he obscured his receding hairline with a cup of coffee. I’m having trouble figuring out the mechanics of it…
Date sounds terrible, BTW. Ladies are rarely impressed by one’s ability to extort through violent threats.

TheRestOfTheStoryJune 9th, 2010 at 10:05 am

What kind of bike? Was it a fixie?

sarahJune 9th, 2010 at 10:37 am

haha i also was wondering about this picture!

Frau BlucherJune 9th, 2010 at 2:36 pm

I think the Hair vanity thing is so they’ll look younger or attract younger women. What they don’t realize is that you can’t see what they look like in those photos, where they’re wearing sunglasses and baseball caps. They don’t look younger they look like dorks!

No thanks.June 10th, 2010 at 1:17 am

“throat-f**ked” – sounds so appealing

Still cracking upJune 10th, 2010 at 8:49 am

I had to re-read this one, because after reading “throat-f**ked” I couldn’t remember anything else from the story. I’m definitely going to have to look into ways to throw that little gem into conversations in the future.

DuncanJune 10th, 2010 at 5:46 pm

I read this and think to myself ‘maybe I’m just not assertive enough on dates’.

“…told me about his last date who “throat-f**ked” him in her car and asked if I would do that.” – How exactly would someone segue into that. I find negotiating for a second date awkward enough. I literally have no idea how the transition in conversation from work, family, school, life aspirations, hobbies, recent books read and the like could smoothly leap to ex-girlfriends and ‘throat-f**king’. For one thing, I always thought ex-girlfriends was a topic to stay away from on a first date. For another, though I’m no dialogue writer, I kinda figure that ‘throat-f**king’ of those topics scriptwriters would advise to you to ‘show not say’, if you see what I mean. Then again maybe that’s where you get all the folk mentioned on this site who seem unusually enthusiastic to distribute pictures of their wieners.

Donald UrquhartJune 24th, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Some guys are very, very touchy about their hair for a lot of reasons. Maybe they feel like they’re less masculine, though that’s ironic given that male pattern baldness is caused by a variant on testosterone. However, trying to hide it with a cup of coffee is somewhat unforgivable. The rest of his behaviour on the date is downright vile. I mean, who brags about being an anti-social maniac who threatens people with wrenches? And then his request was just out of this world. It’s a pity that there are guys like that in the world, they give the rest of the male gender a bad name. I hope your dates in the future go a lot better.

Donald from Evening Primrose Oil Hair Loss

TecTonyAugust 4th, 2010 at 3:01 am

I just like hats, they are a useful fashion accessory and keep my facial skin protected from sun.
I have very fair blonde hair buzzed to crew cut and it is thinning from top so my scalp can burn easy, so hats also keep my scalp happy.

LucMay 6th, 2011 at 2:09 pm

“He seemed normal.”
“he sounded normal”

I’m really curious about what some people classify as “normal”. It is used an awful lot on this site, but I don’t think it means what they think it means.

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