Submission 7 in The Worst Dating Story Contest comes from Simone Grant (@SimoneGrant) at Sex, Lies & Dating.

This is the story of one my funniest, most bizarre dates. Also one of the shortest.

It was a Saturday afternoon. A coffee date in my neighborhood. The man arrived and was clearly 5-10 years older than his picture and creepy. He just has this vibe that made me want to run away.  But I have manners, so I stayed and made polite chit-chat for about 10-15 minutes. And then I said that it was nice meeting him and it was so very kind of him to come to my ‘hood but I was thinking we weren’t a good match and I was going to head home. His reply, “but I have rope in my bag”.

Now, just pause that story for a moment.  Not to get too off-track, or too into my personal tastes or proclivities, but if there were a 1-10 scale for measuring how GGG a person is, with 10 being the most and 1 being the least, I’d be a 10. So if I was in a happy relationship and my partner said, “Honey, I have rope in my bag, ” well shit, honestly I’d be thinking, damn, rope burn.

So what did I do when the creepy first date with the really old picture said, “but I have rope in my bag”?  I said, “it was nice meeting you” and then got out of there as fast as I could.  I then walked in the opposite direction of my apartment and in circles for about 15 minutes to make sure he wasn’t following me.

I like online dating, I do.  But sometimes…