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| Dating Disasters with Gina Robinson |
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| Dating Disasters with Gina Robinson |
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| Tiffany James |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 07:49 AM |
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Today's illustrious hostess is Gina Robinson. She'll be leading what will surely be a charged discussion about Dating Disasters! I've got a doozy - how about the rest of you?
 Reilly Peterson’s been many things in her thirty-two years: an athlete,
a model, a sportswear executive. Her ex-boyfriend, however, has done a
good job of making Reilly something she’s never been—scared. Now
Reilly’s ready to protect herself with more than her sharp tongue.
Fantasy Spy Camp’s Seattle-based Urban Ops division will train her to
survive using everything from her bare hands to a submachine gun. But
when she gets an eyeful of fellow camper Van Keller, all Reilly wants
is to chill out, partner up and go deep undercover...
Learn more about Gina and her books at her website:
http://www.ginarobinson.com/
It's all yours, Gina!
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| Intro |
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| Gina Robinson |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:09 AM |
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Thanks for the welcome, Tiffany! In honor of the season of love,
we’re discussing dating disasters. I know, it seems kind of contrary, but let’s
face it, the path to finding true love is never smooth as romance novels prove.
Everyone’s suffered a bump or two along the way. What can you do but laugh, shrug
it off, and move on? So fire away and share yours—funny, sad, embarrassing, or
plain pathetic, we want to hear it! We’re here to laugh along with you, not at
you. Still shy? Just a really private person? Feel free to share a dating
disaster scene from your favorite novel, movie, or TV show. What made you
laugh, cry, or cringe about it? |
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| I'll Go First |
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| Gina Robinson |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:12 AM |
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My most memorable dating disaster? I’ve been married so long it’s hard to think
back to my dating days. I do remember a particular blind date I went on in
college. A word of wisdom--never, no matter how much they plead, go on a blind
date as a favor to a friend. Not only do you risk having a terrible evening,
but maybe your friendship, too. Anyway, I was young and didn’t know better.
My friend was pretty and fun. I accepted a blind date with a
friend of her attractive brother thinking, how bad could he be? Well...when my
date showed up to take me to his frat formal, he was half my height and sullen.
He didn’t bring a corsage. He walked me to the dance, silent the entire way,
acting as if being on a date with me was part of his hazing and initiation. We
danced maybe one dance together before he got me a glass of very suspect spiked
punch. Then he disappeared, leaving me to be groped by his drunken frat buddies.
I had enough sense to leave, but I had to walk home alone up a steep hill while
wearing three-inch strappy sandals. Had my friend at least warned me of the
guy’s shortness, I might have worn flats so I wouldn’t have towered over my
date and at least the walk home would have been more fun.
Our friendship? Though I was ready to kill her brother, my
friend thought my adventure was funny. And fortunately, I’m the forgiving kind J.
Next? |
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| Dating Disasters with Gina Robinson |
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| Tiffany James |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:24 AM |
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Blind dates are the worst!
I went on a date with a much older guy I met at work. We went to Elitch's - one of the great amusement parks in Denver. We rode one of the rollercoasters that slams you forward, spins you upside down then slams you backwards to where you started. It was awesome! When we got off he looked a little green but said he was fine...then he threw up all over me! He was a nice guy but I simply couldn't get past that...I haven't been to an amusement park on a date since then!
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| Dating Disasters |
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| Gina Robinson |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:11 AM |
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| Oh, that's terrible, Tiffany! I don't blame you. One of my daughter's friends has a dangerous nut allergy and carries an eppie pen. She went on a first date to a Chinese restaurant. Her date ordered cashew chicken and insisting it was the best ever, offered her a bite. Well, she wanted to impress him and not offend him so she tried a bite, trying to avoid the cashews. And you got it, she started to go into anaphylactic shock and had to use her pen. She's since decided it's not worth her life to impress a date. The things we do for love! |
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| Katrina C |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:25 PM |
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Wow, I can't beat those stories (though one of my best friends went on a first date with a guy to a seafood restaurant, where her date got food poisoning. He kept having to pull the car over and find a bathroom. My friend married him.)
On my first real date - the first one where I went out with a guy I'd just met and had no connection to before - I met him at his apartment building. He was Mexican and couldn't pronounce my name, even though he was fluent in English. When he met me in the building's courtyard, he called out to a boy playing soccer, "Mijo, come meet Kerch, Kercher, sorry, I can't say your name."
So when the 7-year-old boy ran over, I said, "Hi, Mijo, I'm Katrina." They both looked at me like I was an idiot and the man said, "Um, mijo is Spanish for 'my son'."
On our second date, I found out he had a second kid. I figured that was a good time to tell him I'd never kissed anyone before.
I finally ended it when he picked me up for a date drunk - which I didn't realize til I got in the car with him - and then he peed in the bushes outside the nice restaurant he was taking me to. The whole relationship was basically a series of tense moments.
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| Dating Disasters |
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| Heather Sands |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 07:28 PM |
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Okay so I don't have any bad blind date stories, my blind date turned out really well, seeing as we will celebrate 11 years of marriage this year.
I do have a group date horror story. I had gone a group date with a bunch of friends and unbeknownest to me my girlfriend had a major crush on the guy I was with. She made us both miserable all night and refused to even talk to the guy she was suppose to be with. We had gone to the Adventure Dome at Circus Circus. We are junk and rode really bad rides. To make the evening end on a really bad note, on teh way with the same girlfriend in the car, on the way home I puked up everything that I had eaten.
Needless to day we both agreed that it would end there.
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| Truth or Dare |
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| Michelle Fryer |
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:44 PM |
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I've had pleanty of disasterous dates. My most pathetic - I met a guy in college who was working for the school literary paper and I thought...oh perfect he reads and maybe he writes. I'm sure he could do both since we were in college, but I forgot to look at basic functions other than that, such as driving. So my 22 year old date had never driven, never been with a woman, and I'm pretty sure I was his first date. I learn this after I've agreed to the date. So I pick him up at his mom's house, (I'm already starting to cringe) we go to a movie and run into some of my sorority sisters who know how creepy this guy is and now I'm more embaressed. We sit through the movie and he puts his arm around me and sweats profusely, yes to the point he is getting my shirt wet and then burps through the entire 2 hours. Since of course he's stuck in my car he insists he is not going home until we go to dinner. I take him to IHOP and promptly go to find my friends, leaving him very much alone. Being a good girl however I feel guilty about being rude and sit down across from him. He leans forward and says...do you want to play truth or dare. It was a nightmare. I couldn't wait to get rid of him and never spoke to him again.
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