Every issue we ask folks at this school an uncomfortable question and publish the answers. We hope that sharing those less-talked-about things here, with each other, can be cathartic. Be warned, some content may be triggering. Email us potential questions!
My worst date was…
- This woman who wouldn’t stop looking at her phone. She even called her mom while we were eating at a restaurant. I drove all the way to Tacoma for this shit. – Jeni, senior
- Someone I met on Tinder. We met at a restaurant off the highway in Tacoma and then he said he’d show me somewhere we could take photographs. I followed him around in my car for like an hour and a half. And when we got there, the place wasn’t that spectacular. – Keely, junior
- Someone from my improv team. They were SnapChatting their ex-girlfriend the whole time. – Tiger, sophomore
- Going to see Eragon with this girl I’d been dating. She tried to tell me she just wanted to be friends, but I was an idiot and didn’t pick up on the signs. She emailed me a few days later to say we were done. Didn’t help that the movie sucked. – Drew, alumnus
- This boy I met at my work. He took me to the waterfront and he wanted to go skinny dipping, then afterwards he brought up marriage. I was too scared to have him at my house, so I asked him to drop me off at work. – Brooklyn, freshman
- Kind of an accidental date. This guy asked me to get Thai food and I didn’t realize it was supposed to be a date. As we were walking down the street after, he kissed me. He had never kissed anyone before and it was really slobbery. – Zoe, junior
- Junior prom. My partner didn’t eat any of the food that I bought. She didn’t dance with me at all. We didn’t take any pictures. And she kept trying to sleep with me the entire night. – Anthony, Student Activities secretary senior
- This guy who took me to the beach, but he just wanted to go Pokémon Go hunting. – Daisy, freshman
- Someone I’d gone to high school with. He just talked trash on all of my friends the whole time. – Jess, sophomore
- This person I thought was on a date with, but then they asked out someone else right in front of me. – Maya, sophomore
- Someone invited me to watch Netflix and they asked me to have sex three minutes into watching that Bird Box movie. I immediately left. It was really awkward and we haven’t talked since. – Martha, junior
- Valentine’s Day last year. The guy forgot his wallet and I had to pay. – Aliyah, freshman
- When I went to the movies with my boyfriend for the first time. We’d been together six months. He didn’t look at me, didn’t hold my hand, didn’t share the popcorn. At the end of it, I was just done with everything. We didn’t stay together. – Victoria, freshman
- My first, quote unquote, “date”. This guy had just enough quarters to buy himself a slice of pizza and I watched him eat it. That was it. That was the whole date. – Lexi, sophomore
- Someone I’d chatted with on Tinder for a day or two right after I lost my job. I was scared I was going to end up homeless and I vented to my date about it. She just shrugged and said, “You don’t have to worry about that. You’re cute. You could make big bucks doing sex work.” She refused to let it go when I expressed I wasn’t comfortable with doing sex work. We didn’t have chemistry and I wasn’t really into her but she was really pushy about me kissing her and I hated it. – Kady, sophomore
- The roommate of this girl I had a crush on. She didn’t realize it was supposed to be a date and she showed up with the crush in tow. We went to see this artsy French sex movie. The roommate was totally aghast and the crush just seemed bored. Because I was 19 and an idiot, I still asked the roommate if I could kiss her at the end of the night. She said no, obviously. – Steph, senior
