Down the Toilet

After breaking up with an ass of an ex, my best friend persuaded me to give Match.com a try as she’d had success on it and thought I would too. I met a few really nice people off the site and managed to filter most of the booty call-type messages, but it seems one slipped through the net. His photo was good, his profile was well written and although I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to go out with someone who was separated with three kids, I thought it wouldn’t be fair to be picky and he may just be right for me. We messaged a couple of times over the site and as I favour meeting up for a drink rather than spending months chatting online only to be disappointed scenario, we swapped numbers and arranged an after work drink and meal in town.

He rolled up late, which was fine as I knew he had a 30 minute journey in rush hour, so I’d bought a book loosely relative to the degree I am studying (criminology). He ordered a coffee, asked me if I was okay with him smoking (I smoke too, but usually make a rule of not smoking on a date) and lit up. He noticed the book I was reading and asked the normal, utterly unfunny questions about whether I was studying to be a criminal, etc. After about 40 minutes, with his coffee gone and my wine pretty much on the dredges, he asked me what I was up to that evening. I said that I thought we had arranged to have dinner, to which he remarked that he’d spent most his money today buying an XBox. He said he wasn’t really hungry but could we go back to mine?

I have a general rule that I never ever get into a car with someone on the first date, much less show them where I live, so I declined. He then spent 10 minutes assuring me he wasn’t a murderer like I read in my books, that he just wanted to drop me home. I still declined. Then he came out with an utter bombshell:

“I was hoping to get a blow job and stick my cock up your arse,” he said.

WTF? He started nervously laughing and I laughed so hard I nearly cried. When he realised I wasn’t laughing with him, but at him, he stood up to pay the drinks bill. Me, being polite, felt it was only fair to “thank” him for the date and drink so I waited for him. Five minutes turned into 10, and then into 15, and I figured he’d made a run for it, so I collected my stuff ready to leave when he appeared at the doorway. He said he’d paid for the drinks and asked me once more if I’d like a lift home.

I discovered why he had been gone so long.

“I just had a wank in the toilets, thinking about your tits,” he explained.

I thanked him, then laughed the entire way home. He rang me a few times, and texted me once to ask, “Was I a bit full on?” I never gave him the grace of replying – I’ll let him mull that one over.

Comments (45)
CallousedJuly 2nd, 2010 at 7:18 am

is this real life?? i made a mess of coffee on my keyboard while reading this horrendous date!!

EmJuly 2nd, 2010 at 7:34 am

I love Scottish men.

ZeppelinJuly 2nd, 2010 at 8:10 am

Sooo revolting. :(

karenJuly 2nd, 2010 at 8:25 am

idiot. separated is not the way to put yourself up for a date. warning! I wish websites wouldn’t offer that.

lifebeginsat30tyJuly 2nd, 2010 at 9:02 am

Jesus. Narcissistic or faulty internal monologue? You be the judge.

MelJuly 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 am

That was hysterical I too would have had the same response (laughing at him). I’m glad you got a good laugh out of it and didn’t respond to him what a freak!!!

YGJuly 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 am

I Had a Wank in the Toilet Just Thinking About Your Tits” is going to be the name of my autobiography. That’s Pulitzer Material right there…

MeshellJuly 2nd, 2010 at 11:42 am

I am waiting for “The Rest Of The Story” commentary. I need the lulz to continue. This is the best/worst date so far, hahahaha.

tronnerJuly 2nd, 2010 at 2:01 pm

@Meshell – was waiting for the same.

Frau BlucherJuly 2nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm

I had a wank in the toilets while thinking of your tits? and these guys wonder why they don’t get dates.

Duncan (a Scot, from Glasgow)July 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm

@Em – Given I can’t seem to find the passage in the story which mentions him as being a Scot was there a reason for your bigoted ejaculation or do you just type every hateful and ignorant thought which comes into your head?

For those who don’t have an issue with Em’s post, perhaps try re-reading it with the word ‘Scottish’ replaced with the word ‘Black’.

buffyJuly 2nd, 2010 at 6:08 pm

@Duncan – Maybe Em really does just love Scottish men, and felt like telling someone.

Wow. That was one of the best stories I’ve read on here.

lunaJuly 2nd, 2010 at 7:50 pm

@Duncan – I think she assumed he was Scottish because he used the word “arse” – Americans don’t hear that word much, and usually when they do it’s used by a Scottish character in a movie. Many of them don’t realize that outside the U.S. a lot of people say “arse”. It was a stupid assumption, but she probably wasn’t trying to be racist. Probably.

YGJuly 2nd, 2010 at 8:34 pm

“Arse” is used all over Great Britain, not just Scotland. And I find the use of “ejaculation” in Duncan’s post a bit fortuitous.

HeatherJuly 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 am

This is one of the best stories I’ve read on this site.

As for the “arse” commentary, I think of British people, not Scottish people. The Scottish people I know all say “ass,” so maybe it depends on where you grew up.

ThandiJuly 3rd, 2010 at 12:23 am

Duncan, you KNOW she wasn’t trying to offend you, why so sensitive?

moiJuly 3rd, 2010 at 2:26 am

really. i don’t know why people go on online dating services. they are full FULL of weirdos. nor i don’t know why people are so surprised when stuff like this happens. Call me a cynic, but it does! VERRRRRRYYY OFTEN!!! ciao

DuncanJuly 3rd, 2010 at 4:21 am

@Thandi – Oh that’s fine then; she just inferred on the basis of this chap’s disgusting conduct that he must be of my country but in so doing she didn’t /mean/ that I or any other Scots should take offense to it. I guess if I had replied to the story saying “and this is why I never date Americans” that would have been fine too? Or if someone had said “typical black guy” that would have been fine and dandy. The truth of the matter is she didn’t intend anything other than a cheap laugh predicated upon an ignorant stereotype of a country, my country, which started the Enlightenment and which today produces more university graduates per capita than anywhere else in the world.

@Heather – Perhaps that might be the case, but even then it’s bigotry. She didn’t say anything about this man being incidentally Scottish, did she? She said something about Scottish men in general. It’s rather as if I were stuck behind an Asian-American in a bank queue who was talking loudly on her cell phone and said ‘man, Asians are so annoying’. It is the unwarranted extension to a group the (negative) properties of an individual which is the core problem, the fact that she did it in this case with limited reason to assume even the individual in question was Scottish just exacerbates the issue.

Frau BlucherJuly 3rd, 2010 at 5:12 am

okay let’s not turn this into a diatribe. It’s obvious this takes place in the british isles, so let’s leave it at that.

L.July 3rd, 2010 at 7:41 am

Horrible date–really well written!

PersJuly 3rd, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Duncan = Fun Police. Seriously, is this story about you? Because your reaction makes me think you have more in common with this story than being Scottish. Pull the stick out of your bum, because (hopefully) it’s not all about you.

YGJuly 3rd, 2010 at 2:49 pm

Being Scottish is NOT the same as being Asian or Black. Scottish is a nationality. Asian/Black/etc is a race.

Get a grip, Duncan, if you really are Scottish (doesn’t sound like you are but are desperately trying to be for the sake of getting attention). Don’t be such a nippy sweetie.

LisaJuly 3rd, 2010 at 3:14 pm

I think Duncan’s point is completely valid.

And, while being Scottish isn’t exactly the same as being Asian or Black, why on earth would the distinction be pertinent (making slurs about nationality vs race– is the first okay, the second not okay? WTF?).

Frankly, I’m rarely offended by slurs. I ‘m often offended by hypocrisy & illogic, though.

gewagJuly 4th, 2010 at 1:07 am

Sometimes I worry about being socially retarded, but then I read about people like this and I feel so much better about myself :D

KatJuly 4th, 2010 at 11:05 am

Finally – Thank GOD for a story where she didn’t feel that she needed to be “nice” and get in the car with him!

HeatherJuly 4th, 2010 at 7:05 pm

Oh god, I went crosseyed. Did this crap seriously start from Em saying she loves Scottish men? I’m a Scottish female, should I get all offended that she apparently doesn’t love Scottish women too?

popJuly 5th, 2010 at 1:59 am

I’m with Duncan and I’m not Scottish, American, Asian or black.

that being said, awesome post!

EmJuly 5th, 2010 at 3:06 am

Why assume I’m American? It’s not ok for me to assume the guy is Scottish but it’s ok to assume I’m American?

“arse” and “wank” are words I at least don’t hear much down south, so I made an assumption. Yes yes “makes an ass of you and me” and all that but I didn’t expect anyone was going to think my statement was somehow racist.

Seriously people, maybe don’t immediately assume that people are out to get you, eh?

For the record I do actually love Scottish men, hence the fact that I live in Scotland and am married to a Scot.

Duncan, did you see the article in the Glasgow Herald on Sunday entitled “What’s Wrong with Scottish Men?”

LisaJuly 5th, 2010 at 5:15 am

Who assumed you’re American? I’m lost.

The guy in the story has no redeeming qualities– he’s vulgar & obnoxious– nowhere was it stated that the setting was Scotland. To reply by saying, “I love Scottish men” implies that you’ve ID’d him as Scottish by his obnoxious behavior– the only thing we know about him.

The slang in the story only implies it’s the British Isles. To arbitrarily assume it’s a particular country is to imply that the men of THAT country are especially obnoxious.

Even if you do actually love Scottish men, in context it sounded sarcastic & vaguely anti-Scot.

ZakJuly 5th, 2010 at 5:57 am

I’m a Scottish man, and I wasn’t offended by Em’s comment at all. There’s no point in getting offended by stuff anyway, all it does is make people think you’re a bit weak. Just post some pics of yourself wearing a kilt til you get compliments instead, that’s my advice. ;)

LJuly 5th, 2010 at 7:15 am

Oh, Zak, now I love Scottish men :-) )

DuncanJuly 6th, 2010 at 6:42 am

Look, I didn’t mean to make this into a big thing but it just seems patently obvious to me that Em’s comment is unacceptable. Even if it was known that the guy was Scottish, which it isn’t, that’s not representative of ‘Scottish men’. If Em knows this by being married to one (who, I’m assuming, doesn’t behave like the guy in the story) that doesn’t make it more acceptable because she should know better. YG, I don’t have to ‘prove’ my Scottishness to you (any ideas on how I should do it? I don’t, unlike Zak, own a kilt). Zak and Pers, I don’t think it’s ‘weak’ to stand up against bigotry when you see it; if Em’s comment had been about black people or French people I’d have done the same thing (though perhaps without quite the same level of vitriol). If saying jokes predicated on prejudice against particular ethno-cultural groups are lame makes me the ‘fun police’… okay, I’m the fun police.

Seriously folks, the original comment bothers me less than that so many of you apparently don’t see a problem with it. Em, if you don’t see the problem what if there was a story about a girl behaving abhorrently who happened to be English and folks started saying ‘English women are so awful!’ Are you saying that wouldn’t raise your heckles any?

Unrelated – The Herald article is about how men in Scotland are too invested in ‘masculinity’ and aren’t metrosexual enough. First, I’m not sure I want to go normatising meterosexuality; I’m happy enough not putting products in my hair other than shampoo and don’t see myself waxing anything any time soon. I think, contra the article, that in fact there has been some move in that direction amongst Scottish students my age, but regardless, what I question in the strongest possible terms is the author’s contention that being in touch with your emotions is incompatible with masculinity and what I take to be your implication, by mentioning the article, that the guy in the story above’s behaviour (if he is Scottish) could in any way be described as ‘masculine’. I’d accept the norms of conventional masculinity require a certain control over your emotions, but it certainly doesn’t follow from that you shouldn’t have any. In the 20th century we seem to have lost the equation between masculinity on the one hand and things like poetry and learning on the other which are nowadays seen as effete. I’m not a cultural historian but I figure the idea is something which has filtered into the consciousness from American models of the frontiersman as the pinnacle of masculinity (‘I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay’) replacing the standard hitherto occupied by enlightenment and renaissance reinterpretations of classical norms of masculinity. Or maybe in Scotland’s case it has more to do with the legacy of Presbyterianism; as I said, I’m not a historian. If anything I’d have said the problem with contemporary Scotland, and the guy above, was that folks weren’t ‘masculine’ enough.

Given the join subjects of Scottishness and renaissance masculinity I should mention in passing that I thought David O’Hara’s depiction of the Earl of Surrey in the Tudors was fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUNzOp9QLfk

bellaJuly 6th, 2010 at 8:06 am

Duncan, honey, LET IT GO. This is a comedy website in which people are expected to have a sense of humour. Save your soap box diatribe for Uni.

VDJuly 6th, 2010 at 8:27 am

Duncan clearly has angry little man syndrome.

ChelseaJuly 7th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

What an ass.

zomboidJuly 12th, 2010 at 2:56 pm

it’s more fun to read duncan’s comments if you imagine them in a cartoon scottish accent

HeddyJuly 17th, 2010 at 12:45 am

@Duncan lol you make me laugh. But I’m afraid that you’re correct in saying that juding someone based on their national origin IS a form of descrimination, and therefore unacceptable. However in this case I think it should be allowed because (in my opinion at least) it was a fair comment :)

As a woman currently living in Scotland let me just say that this MVWD is something that I can see happening. In fact, I think I might know this guy haha

BexJuly 30th, 2010 at 1:43 am

Hello. This was my story, and I’m British – Arse is a term I hear and use myself. Not sure where all the gratuitous nonsense about racism and/or nationalism came from!

I still recall this story when people talk about awful dates, although I have to say I do think online dating can work!

LouSeptember 13th, 2010 at 6:05 am

Oh dear… just one thing to say (or rather shout): HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IDIOT.

ClaireOctober 20th, 2010 at 5:48 pm

Oh soapboxes… how we love thee.

Also, did it never cross anyone’s mind that he could be Australian? In fact, I’m sure that there are a few guys down here that would carry on like that.. ewwwwww.

MCNovember 6th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

@luna.. assuming that someone who uses the word “arse” might be Scottish doesn’t make one a “racist” anyway. No one today, and I mean NO ONE even knows what the word means. So learn it.

Larz BlackmanApril 7th, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Anyone who would date a married person deserves whatever bullshit comes their way.

DynamiteJuly 3rd, 2011 at 4:34 pm

why would you even laugh its like you thought it was cute. I would of flipped him off and left. Why even sit around wasting your time with a idiot like that. ugh guys these days need to take their brains out their di*ks

KatAugust 1st, 2011 at 3:30 am

God chill the freak down people. Duncan stop taking things so seriously.
SMH

BexOctober 4th, 2012 at 1:59 pm

Larz – he was married but had been seperated for a while. Hence the date.

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