Young Ones

Wtf? This is the lamest MVWD ever.

If your telling of the story is any indication of your personality in real life, I’d distract myself with something else (like my phone), too. Yawn- sounds like a bit of a stuck up snooze fest.

The tag “Just Plain Pathetic” sort of describes both of you.

“A young plaything” ? If someone clearly had that little respect for me as you did for your date, I’d be trying to escape through my phone too. I think this should be tagged “Culprit’s Confession.”

the way she wrote it left a bad taste in my mouth. blah. gimme a cool phone with games on it any day of the week.

What does it mean to “tame” someone with a bar stool?

i assume it means to take the stool and pretend you have a whip. like a lion tamer. I’ve never heard of it being done before.

Maybe he was using his phone to translate the hundred different signals you were shooting him all night: We’re going Dutch, but you’re my plaything, your ear stinks, but you’re so hot! Kiss me, you fool! Pay attention to me! Oh no, you have a spine! We’re leaving, bad plaything, bad!

The way you asked if he was on his phone again sounded like you were his mother. He was probably freaked out and was trying to find a way out of this date the entire evening.

People that can’t put their phone down are just proving how easily amused and friendless they are.

Has MVWD editor(s) taken the day off? Why was this published?. I’m not one to rant but this story is erratic and poorly written I couldn’t get pass sentence 6! Sadly enough but it seems I’m amongst the very few to have spoken against this balderdash! Please get it together!

It sounds like you are the OP is the one who is a cranky three year old.
She gets drunk, demands attentions on her terms, dump a guy at a random party, an then likely drives drunk since the guy was a designated driver.

Imagine if a guy wrote this.

So, let me get this straight………..you’re old (let us say, “mature”) and your young boytoy was bothering you by using his newfangled pocket telephone contraption all evening. He was sick,but instead of being sympathetic, you were disgusted. You then decided to leave but had a senior moment and couldn’t remember where his horseless carriage was parked, and these events combined made for your very worst date since 1933?

It sounds like that the guy wrote the story in attempt to get the sympathy in reverse. I mean who in their right mind would think that describing their dates as young play thing, controlling them and dumping them to a party would garner the sympathy for themselves?
I second the joker’s question. OP should make it clear that to readers

hahahahahaha!
this is hilarious. hilariously snotty.
this old cow may be old in years, but certainly not maturity. sounds like she needs to get over herself.

I think she was the bad date.

> sashathebrit: LOL! awesome.

@Bellerophon I agree with you, I found the OP’s writing to be hard to wade through. Also, this line was one of my favorites: “In the car on the way to the parties, I noticed an odor around his neck, but only on the side he couldn’t hear out of.” How does one notice an odor around somebody’s neck, and then hear out of only one side of it? It’s one thing if the submitter made this mistake, but you’d think somebody would just edit this to say what OP obviously meant to say.

Hehe, I love when MVWD occasionally posts stupid stories like this so we can all go “Wow, the worst date was for the other person!” Thanks for posting this snotty brat’s story. Her story was full of mixed signals to the reader, so I am sure the poor guy escaping into his phone couldn’t handle her as well.

Poor guy. I agree, he was likely looking for an escape from this arrogant snot of a woman all night.

Yep, bitter old cow getting older and more bitter. I bet… 38.

I’m kind of surprised nobody has said anything about the dude dicking with his phone while driving yet.

While I agree that being immersed in one’s handheld device makes for poor company, the guy probably realized early on he was on a date with his mum so just decided to text and play Tetris the whole night.

Thanks @rawr! While the poster may not have been a perfect date (did it occur to anyone that the poster felt it was her worst date due to both of their behavior?) he could have left at any time during the night, was texting while driving, was rude and smelly. If he was so sick perhaps he should have stayed home. Lesson learned for all.

my beloved mum spent half an evening out to dinner (just the two of us) texting on her bloody phone once, i was livid. as if i even wanted to be out with my mother in the first place. but at least her head didn’t stink of ear-rot…

not that i’m saying the OP wasn’t clearly the dickhead in this story, i just always love a chance to complain about my mum.

All and all Admin. this story is still really badly written. I’m well aware most of us here aren’t presumably Pulitzer holders but a little editing (or feedback and criticism on authors writing before posting) could make for akin ingratiating experience. Just my take.

How can one smell their own ear? How was that his fault? I became really paranoid about being a VWD due to an ear infection and texted my girlfriend (not while driving, mind you – that would have been fer sher a very-worst-something) and asked, “honey, when I had that ear infection last winter, did I smell?” Thankfully her response was “no more than usual.”

I speak and write in 6 languages (English being my first) and I couldn’t read this. I wish it had been edited.

Does anybody know the answer to the question asked earlier on, how do you tame someone with a bar stool? I didn’t get that.

rawr about the driving thing, isn’t it better if they both don’t live long enough to reproduce?

taming question: http://www.simonfieldhouse.com/LionTamerSonyJPEG-large.jpg
you use the chair/stool to fend the lion off i guess

about the driving thing, the story didn’t say he was texting while driving

maybe you both should take writing classes to rekindle the flame.

@ zomboid – yeah, that’s how i took it.

I’m surprised at the “unable to read” comments, though. I found it fine – not great – but it is certainly not unreadable.

I can’t imagine you would get very far using a stool to fend off a lion.

@bellerophon, Would you be interested in helping with editing? Seriously.

@hellcat – maybe ignoring the lion to text your friends all night would be more effective?

I prefer reading the (mostly) unedited posts – it kind of gives a feel for the mental state of the original author. Assuming they’re a native English speaker of course.

zomboid:

thanks for the link, I’m embarassed I should have just looked it up.

about the driving thing…” He agreed to be our designated driver, but still looked at his phone more often than the road.” implies that he was driving and texting.

I thought the whole “lion tamer with a whip and a chair” was common knowledge. Did no one else grow up on Warner Brothers cartoons?

I too like the unedited posts. I’m far from an English teacher; and always place things like semi-colons in the wrong place. Seeing as a the placement of a comma can completely change the meaning of a sentence, it may be contrary to the author’s original, albeit messy, intent if one just goes in and edits the posts.

Besides, I kind of like the messiness. Mistakes indicate the poster isn’t as high and mighty as they think they are and often the errors indicate to me that it was the OP, not their poor date, that was the cause of the VWD.

I think he was taming the “cougar.” Maybe the joke was lost on her.. She sounds boring! Dude was probably just looking for an older, experienced woman and ended up with a mad old hen.

oops – see what I mean about not being an English teacher? Should read “Seeing as the placement…”

This was almost impossible to read, just because of how horribly it was written & the sparkling attitude of the OP. Ugh!

@sashathebrit: Thank you! You summed it right up! Also, I’m confused, was this his truck or the OP’s (that she took the keys to)?

@sashathebrit: In lieu of the “like” that some blogs have on comments, I have to say…well done!

@thandi – oops, missed that phone/road bit

C-rush, you beat me to it! )))