The $60 dinner date who bragged about his Prius mileage for 45 minutes

I went on a date last week with a guy I met on an app. He spent the first 20 minutes telling me his Prius gets 52 miles per gallon and then pulled out a spreadsheet to prove it. I tried changing the subject to movies, but he kept circling back to fuel economy. I ended up making an excuse about my cat being sick and left after the appetizer. Has anyone else had a date who just wouldn't stop talking about one weird thing?

3 comments

3 Comments

rowan221d ago

Used to think people like that were just quirky and misunderstood, like they were passionate about something that could actually be interesting if you gave it a chance. Then I spent two hours trapped with a guy who explained how his car's various dashboards each saved him a fraction of a second, and @eva908's sourdough story started looking reasonable by comparison. Dude had a whole binder with colored tabs for maintenance logs. That spreadsheet detail got me because it's exactly the kind of proof someone like that would bring to a casual dinner. The harmless ones are fine, but when they bring spreadsheets and binders, that's when you know you're in for a long night.

eva90821d ago

Oh man, that spreadsheet detail is killing me. My friend Sarah went on a date with a guy who spent the whole dinner talking about his sourdough starter like it was his child. He brought photos of it at different stages of fermentation and everything. She said she just nodded along for an hour while he explained hydration ratios and feeding schedules. In my experience, people like this are usually pretty harmless, just zero self-awareness about what makes good conversation.

david_rivera415d ago

Gotta disagree with you on this one @eva908, and @rowan2 I'm with the weirdos here. Honestly, that sourdough guy sounds like he actually cared about sharing something he loved, which is way better than the usual boring small talk about the weather or work. The spreadsheet thing is just organization, it's not a crime to be prepared for a conversation. Ngl, I'd rather hear about someone's binder tabs than pretend to care about which Netflix show they've been half-watching.