Mike the Knife

A few years ago I met this guy online, we’ll call him “Mike.” Mike and I had been talking for about two years online and on the phone before we met and he showed no signs of weirdness. We finally decided to meet up at my local mall. The second I saw him walk up I immediately wanted out. He was probably the palest, skinniest person I had ever seen and he was wearing a black trench coat in July and black platform boots. He said he was 6 feet tall, but I’m only 5’8″ and he still wasn’t taller than me, even with those horrid boots. After we walked around for awhile, he walked up to a mirror that was on the wall, took out a 4″ knife and started shaving his face with it.

We continue our stroll and he decided it was appropriate to grab me by the shoulders and lick my cheek. I have no idea what was going on in his head that made him think it was okay to do that. Then he said he was hungry, so he got a pretzel and we sat down at a table. While he was eating he grabbed my hands and got butter and pretzel salt all over them. Finally, I suggested a movie. It was a definite “boy” movie, with lots of action and guns and I figured I could slip out during it and get the hell out of there.  While we were watching the previews I felt something on my chest. I looked down and he was grabbing my left boob. It’s not like we were making out or something, we were just sitting there! I pushed him away and excused myself to the restroom and never went back. I’m just glad I made it out alive.

Comments (20)
rubyluluJune 28th, 2010 at 8:09 am

Haha! That’s hilarious. I can’t believe he just reached out and grabbed your boob. Excellent.

karenJune 28th, 2010 at 9:05 am

use the mace or a fire hose on him. idiot. i would walk away and never look back.

LalliJune 28th, 2010 at 10:32 am

Shaving his face with a knife in the mall? Wow.

TMSJune 28th, 2010 at 11:41 am

I’m surprised you stayed past him licking your cheek. I thought it was only appropriate for a dog to lick your face, not your date.

AndrewJune 28th, 2010 at 11:46 am

I think the shaving part is my favorite.

MMMichelleJune 28th, 2010 at 12:06 pm

Poor Mike. I can’t tell you how many I have met like him. I love weirdo’s, but sometimes you meet some that are really weird, like this. Shaving in public with a knife? He wanted you to know that he is hard core. Trench coat in July? My brother does this, it’s “comfortable”. You ran, that was the appropriate thing to do. The better thing would have been to tell him exactly why and then leave, but I doubt he would have got it.

tronnerJune 28th, 2010 at 12:24 pm

Two years online and through the phone and none of that came through? I’m not doubting your story, but did you have any warning signs in hindsight? Like “oh yeah, when he said he was talking about ‘taking on the world in his combat boots and k-bar knife’ I just thought he was being ironic?”

bradleaJune 28th, 2010 at 2:18 pm

i actually knew a guy named mike who was a lot like this. although i can’t picture him having the courage to grab a girl’s tit like that, haha.
really, i’ve known about four guys like this. one of them even took MY knife and shaved with it.
weird goth kids!

ThandiJune 28th, 2010 at 2:49 pm

yeah, you should have just told him you were leaving. Nothing worse than not knowing what happened to someone. Not to say that he wasn’t weird or anything, from the very beginning, the trench coat and boots would have made me come up with excuses to cancel!

LisaJune 28th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

I once dated a guy who reached over and honked my tit during a movie, apropos of nothing. I found it oddly endearing– he’d had so little dating experience that by date #3 he couldn’t resist what seemed a golden opportunity (“Eureka! I’m actually sitting next to a girl, in the dark, who PROBABLY won’t punch me if I reach out & squeeze her boob. By gosh, I’ll DO IT…”).

I’m a sucker for feral nerds, so I eventually married him.

Frau BlucherJune 28th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

LOL!
but this guy sounds like eeeeeeeew!

KimJune 28th, 2010 at 10:40 pm

The first date on this site in a while that I’ve actually laughed out loud about! I can’t decide if the platform boots or the knife shaving is my favourite part.

Definitely worth 5 stars!

ZakJune 29th, 2010 at 2:53 am

Honk! :-D

ChelseaJune 29th, 2010 at 6:53 am

Oh Lord.. and you were even seen together in public! I’m so terribly, awkwardly sorry :)

geialgJune 30th, 2010 at 1:07 am

lol at lisa’s comment.

BloodyNeptuneJune 30th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

I think I know this guy xD My VWD sounds exactly the same

LJune 30th, 2010 at 3:42 pm

Telling him you’re leaving and why + four inch knife = I don’t think so…run, run away!

moiJuly 3rd, 2010 at 2:40 am

Knife + date = run. Run even if you are in a speeding car with him! Better a quick death than be tortured slowly.

NayNayJuly 3rd, 2010 at 9:18 pm

So funny! Two years and you never saw a picture of this guy or anything? Well, at least you have a funny story to tell your friends!

JessJuly 4th, 2010 at 4:39 am

Oh, yeah…I can’t believe I forgot to add this in…There was a radio station booth in the food court and he refused to even walk past through it to get real food (other than the pretzel…it was the farthest food place from the food court) because he “didn’t want to listen to that shit, or go through the ( fairly small) crowd of people”. ALSO, after that terrible date, I found out that he was a wannabe Nazi.

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