“I met a guy, and a few minutes into our first date, he told me in a deadpan voice in the middle of a quiet café, ‘I like to do household chores and clean for dominant women’. I said, ‘Hmmm, that’s not quite what I’m looking for. I’m going to go now’, and left.”
Kim, 24, Perth
“I stopped doing online dating because I met a girl off of (site name withheld) and I realised it was a mistake when she turned up to the bar with a pacifier in her mouth. I kid you not. I felt really uncomfortable especially when she announced to everyone that I was ‘her Daddy and would I please take her home to read her a bedtime story.’ I didn’t know where to look.”
Darren, 33, Mackay
Online dating horror stories; we’ve all heard them and we’ve all had a few no doubt. So why does it happen?
The Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
At the end of the day it always comes back to how honest people are on their profiles. The less honest you are, the less chance you have of turning a potential date into an f-buddy or more. Yet millions of people worldwide admit to lying on their dating profile. Various reasons given include ‘I want to sound cooler/hotter/better etc. etc. etc.’ Yet the more you lie, the more chance you have of being banned from a dating site and ending up alone and miserable. Take the two accounts below as more warning if you don’t believe us.
“I started chatting to this 23 year old online about a year ago. Eventually we agreed to meet up and ended up having sex the same night – this never happens to me by the way so I was really surprised and pleased! Anyway before we did anything I explained that I wasn’t really looking for a serious relationship right now and was just after some casual fun. She said ‘yes that’s all she wanted as well – hadn’t I read her profile?’ So far so hot. Two days later I was inundated with texts from her asking what was going on and why hadn’t I called her and that I couldn’t treat someone I was dating like this? ‘WTF?!’ was my reaction. Being fair, I called her up (big mistake) and tried to explain again what I had explained before. She denied all knowledge of the conversation and called me a liar. I blocked her number off my phone after that. Basically this girl had lied about pretty much everything on her profile including her age – she was only 20. My next date was closer to my own age and we had a lot more honest fun.”
Paul, 33, Darwin
“So I met up with this guy – let’s call him ‘Dave’ for the sake of anonymity – I’d been chatting to on (site withheld). We got talking about tattoos – I have one on my ankle – and I asked him if he had any? He said ‘No, but I do have a branding scar of a Swastika on my forearm’.
He then showed me the scar.
I then noticed that he had a front tooth missing – totally different to what was in his profile pic. When I asked what had happened, he said he’d lost it in a fight over a year ago but couldn’t be bothered to go to the dentist and get it fixed. He told me he’d also been stabbed. I was shocked and asked ‘where?’
‘In the testicle’ he cheerfully replied.
I left when he was in the toilet.”
Nerissa, 26, Brisbane
Avoid the horror – Tell the TRUTH!
These are real stories and just go to show how important it is to be honest on your profile. We take every precaution to make sure all the profiles uploaded are genuine but there will always be people who try to take advantage of the system and tell a pack of lies. When it comes to meeting up with an f-buddy you need to be honest, open and cautious. Make sure your date is who they say they are before meeting up for an encounter and if you’re not sure challenge them and report the profile to us.
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