Random Tinder Horror Stories That Make Us Never Want To Date Again (16 items)

• (#1) Saving Face

  Posted by Redditor /u/grapeflavoredorange:

  We lived about 25 minutes from each other, so agreed to meet at the beach pier about halfway between. Before meeting, we had been texting and he seemed totally normal. 

  I was already at the pier when he texted me saying he can't meet me there because his license is revoked and it's too far for him to walk. I should've just left then, but I agreed to meet him at a pizza place closer to him. I get there, and I'm standing outside when I see him, and quickly realize the pics from his profile were at least 3-5 years old. Homeboy looks like the dollar store version of himself. Greasy, looks like he hasn't showered in days, hair undone, holes in his shirt. 

  I awkwardly give him a side hug and suggest we get a seat, and he says, "Oh, no, we're not getting pizza. Let's go to the park." I awkwardly say okay, and as he talks, I realize his gums and tongue ring are stained black from smoking. By this point, I am completely turned off and am just keeping up with formalities.

  So we get to the park and find a bench to talk, and before I can sit down, homie pulls me onto his lap, squeezing me and saying, "God, babygirl, you are so cute." 

  I awkwardly scooch away and try to get a conversation going. He pulls out his phone and starts texting for a few minutes, not really listening to me, before interrupting with, "Have you smoked? My friend is a plug, we could go back to my place for a bowl." I decline. "Aw, come on, babygirl, my place is just right there. We could have some fun, too." I decline again. 

  Next thing you know, he pulls me close by the face and whispers, "You're so innocent," before broad-tongued licking my face from chin to ear. Shell-shocked, I just sit there for a moment processing what just happened before I decide to fake an urgent phone call and leave.
• (#2) She Got A Name Tattoo Before The Date

  Posted by Redditor /u/Thewhitetmac:

  I matched with a girl and sent a lot of messages, later that night we talked on the phone and the conversation was going really well, so I asked to go out the next night. She agreed and then five minutes later, she tells me that needs to tell me something. She tells me that she’s permanently in a wheelchair. So I’m either an a-hole if I back out now or an a-hole if I lead her on. I figure why not, it’s just a date and it could be a fun time still. 

  We talk more that night and go to bed, the next morning she calls me early and tells me she’s doing something crazy. She won’t tell me what but she said she’ll show me later. A few hours goes by and she calls me back, and tells me she’s going to send me a pic of what she did. I check my messages and I see a picture of her wrist, with my name now tattooed on it. 

  We end the call and I immediately tell my friends about this crazy girl. Later that night, I’m driving to her place 'cause I figure, she can be committed enough to tattoo my name on her I should be committed enough to go on this date. Plus, I have to know it it’s real. 

  I’m almost at her place and I realize that my car may not accommodate her wheelchair and I know she drives, so I ask if she can drive us. I’m walking in the parking lot and she drives up and I get in the car. Now I had figured she had a handicapped enabled car. Nope. Turns out she just uses two crutches to drive, one on the gas and one on the brake. I don’t like this as we’re driving on the southern California freeways in traffic. 

  We go eat and she gets a phone call from her daughter. Turns out she left her 10-year-old daughter at home alone and she’s scared. I’m like hey we can go. But she’s like no, it’s okay, I gave her something to make her sleep she’ll be asleep soon. 

  So we finish up and I was gonna take her to see a movie, but the kid thing was too much so we head home and my fingers are already crossed that we make it when she turns to me while driving and says, "Wow, I’m kinda drunk." In my head I’m like, one drink is all you had! But I ask if I can drive and she says no, she’s gonna get in the fast lane and uses her crutch to hit the gas. I say my last prayers but we made it back to her place. So I wheeled her back to her door said goodbye and lived. 

  Tattoo was real though.
   
• (#3) Mom Tries Her Hand At Tinder

  Posted by Redditor /u/DasKatzechen:

  This isn't actually my story. It's my Mom's. After getting out of an incredibly long and unpleasant marriage, my mom joined Tinder. Stella wanted to get her groove back, and I was 100% on her team (I'm an adult). I can't emphasize enough, she was not looking for a long-term connection. Her work sent her out of state for a while, and everything seemed perfect. She's going to get her rando D and there's no chance of it getting serious.

  She's sending me screenshots of the guys she's considering, I'm giving her tips on safety. And then she picks a guy. I immediately tell her that he is not a wise choice. This guy's profile is 98% red flags by volume. Whatever, she's an adult, I literally cannot stop her. 

  Somehow in the four hours they are physically together he figures out which flight she's taking the next day. He used that to find her final destination, and somehow even finds her home address. He uses the public tax information to find her full name, and from there hunts down her Facebook.

  And finds my dad. Calls him on the phone!! And dishes EVERYTHING. Sends him pictures and screenshots of convos. Then he starts sending my mom harassing messages that he loves her but that he can't trust her. Ultimately my mom had to call the police.
• (#4) Accidents Happen

  Posted by Redditor /u/GravyxNips:

  So I met this girl on Tinder and went for a lunch date. We had a pretty good connection so we decided to have dinner as well.

  After having a few drinks one thing lead to another and ended up back at my place, we hooked up and went to sleep.

  Middle the night I wake up. She’s intensely staring at me while she’s crouched behind the bed. I asked her if everything is alright, she said yes and got back into bed. I thought “little creepy, but probably nothing to worry about.”

  She lays down to cuddle with me and she’s wet. At the time, I was like, “Damn, I must just be a stallion.” Fast forward to the morning, she’s gone and there’s a wet puddle beside the bed.

  She peed on my floor.

  I still don’t understand it. I had a bathroom, but maybe she just got lost and couldn’t hold it?

  I did not hear from her again.
• (#5) He Had A Few Suggestions

  Posted by Redditor /u/yhcaepeachy:

  Talked to him for two weeks before we went out and no red flags so we ended up going out to dinner. I said I hadn't been out in a while because I was trying to save money for a washer and dryer. He told me instead of saving for that I should save for a boob job. I didn't even know how to reply so he followed up with, "No, it's not a bad thing, my sister and Mom both had small breasts and got boob jobs and they look amazing." 

  This is all before the waitress even brought our drinks. I just got up and left.
• (#6) Old Friends

  Posted by Redditor /u/rriro:

  I went to his place and we hooked up but after he goes, “So you wanna know what I’m really into?” And I was like sure and then he grabs my foot. I have a really irrational fear of people touching my feet, so I ran the hell out of there anyway I get to the living room on the way out and it turns out to be his parents house and I look at his mother and see she was my old therapist.
• (#7) One Too Many Mai Tais

  Posted by Redditor /u/Transformwthekitchen:

  I went on a tinder date a couple months ago on a sunday afternoon. Met up with the guy around 3, he had a really good energy and was funny and complimentary. The place we wanted to go had a long line, so we went to another restaurant on the water for a drink and appetizers. He started slamming down Mai Tais. I had one, he had 3. They were STRONG. Like, I was tipsy borderline drunk off of one. The bar had a 2 mai tai per person limit, but he found another bartender to get his 3rd. He got drunker and drunker and started telling me he loved me, joking at first but getting increasingly serious. As we left he asked me to marry him, I kind of laughed it off, and was like “maybe we take it slow, we just met each other.” He got so mad he stormed off and left me on a street corner. Then as soon as he got home (it was 5 pm) he started texting me “come over.” And “I miss you.”

  He was 43.
• (#8) Package Deal

  Posted by Redditor /u/McConnells_Neck:

  It ended up being a double date with his mom and her OkCupid date. He told me that he and his mom were a "package deal." I was mortified and there was no second date.
• (#9) Not A Story But A Journey

  Posted by Redditor /u/teeny_gecko:

  We were supposed to meet at 9 p.m., he fell asleep and called me at 9:30 when I was already at the carnival. I told him not to bother coming as I didn’t want to see him.

  He asked for another chance and I agreed.

  Unfortunately my dad got really ill and had to spend the next six weeks in the hospital with me visiting him daily. I had no time for dates and he got extremely mad.

  He made a fake Instagram account which he used to follow me and everybody that I followed. 
  He then saw me in a friend’s Instagram story and showed up to the restaurant we were at. 

  He called me a whore and a liar and we had to threaten to call the police because he would not leave.

  Edit: some of you are asking how it ended and I’ll just add this to my comment.

  He had my number and kept calling me using different phones. I knew it was him because he’d just be silent and I could hear him breathing. He did this for over 10 months, I was even living in a different country towards the end.

  One day I was expecting a call from a friend and had a missed call from a landline so I called back.

  It was his mom, I explained to her what was happening and after a long silence she said,  “Please don’t call the police, I will talk to him”.

  Never heard from him again.

  Edit 2: Some people are asking how the convo with his mum went so I’ll just type it here too.

  I was living in Thailand at the time and I had a friend (“Luis”) text me the night before telling me that he missed me and he wanted to catch up so I told him he could call after I finished work (I was a teacher there). When I came back from school I saw I had a missed call from a landline and I assumed it was Luis so I called back. A woman picked up.

  Her: Hello?

  Me: Hi, Teeny Gecko here, I have a missed call?

  Her: It must have been “Carlos.” He’s not home at the moment, but I’ll have him call you later.

  It clicked for me. I only know two guys named Carlos.

  Me: Carlos Surname?

  Her: Yes!

  Me: I'm sorry but could I talk to you for a second?

  Then I told her everything I remembered, I was so scared she would not believe me and call me a liar. I was shaking and I’ve never felt so sh*t, it was nearly two years ago and I forget the exact details but she kept whispering “Dios mío” as I was telling her. She asked me to not call the police and I told her I would if I ever heard from him again. I never did.

  Edit 3: Some people are asking me how I found out about the fake Instagram account so here it goes:

  The reason I was at a restaurant was because my sister had flown in from Dublin to visit my dad for a weekend and she made plans to meet her friends for tapas. I drove her to the restaurant and her friends saw me drop her off and asked me to stay, I did.

  After a while, I saw him and he yelled, the waiter threatened to call the police, and after the madness I sat back down and we all looked at each other like WTF.

  I wondered how TF he knew I was there and the only way he could have known was because one of my sister’s friend put up a story where we were all saying “saluuuuud!” with our drinks and she saw that one 40+ people saw the story.

  We ended up finding his profile and realized that he had followed EVERYONE I followed so that’s how. We all reported the account and it got taken down by Instagram.
• (#10) He Stole Her Heart...Among Other Things

  Posted by Redditor /u/sciamoscia:

  Not me, but I worked as a bartender for a while and heard a lot of horror stories secondhand.

  This one girl who was a regular came in and told me about an awful tinder date she had. Not sure of the specifics, but it wasn’t bad enough for her to not bring him home afterward. He leaves the next morning, she brushes it off as a one night stand, and a few days later, her debit card gets declined. Odd, since she is a bartender herself at a fairly busy place in our city and is good about saving and usually flush with cash. She goes to check her debit card, turns out there were a bunch of charges at Best Buy, Grubhub, a bunch of other stuff. Curious, she checks her credit card too. There she found a bunch of charges for streaming services. Netflix, Hulu, sling, everything. She goes to confront the guy and finds out he deleted his profile. But she remembers a friend they had in common on Facebook. She reaches out to the mutual friend to try and track him down and it turns out he did the exact same thing to that mutual friend.
• (#11) Bad Sign

  Posted by Redditor /u/Rockchakra:

  First date, she wanted me to get into a bar fight with the perfectly friendly guy who'd bought us a round of shots that night. Why? Because she found out he was a Scorpio.
• (#12) Short Story

  Posted by Redditor /u/Rough_Culture:

  She smoked some meth. Her dogs ate my wallet.
• (#13) Family Affair

  Posted by Redditor /u/Geeseinfection:

  This guy asked me if I would be interested in dating his dad.
• (#14) Match Game

  Posted by Redditor /u/amym2001:

  Matched with my bff's fiancé after the engagement party. Screen shots of everything and lost my bff because I don't play that. I was uninvited to the wedding.

  Marriage lasted 18 months.
• (#15) He Didn't Have Teeth

  Posted by Redditor /u/hardcorefuzzybunnies:

  Met a guy, decent conversation, smart, funny, mutual nerdy hobbies. We decide to meet up at the local gamer bar and play some games while having our first date. Get in, sit down, dude has no teeth. Says a hack dentist told him they all had to be removed, couldn't get dentures due to budget, needed to wait for bone shards go fall out of his gums, etc. Proceeded to spit all over our food while talking, which granted, I knew he couldn't help, but if he can hide something this big from someone, what else could he be hiding? Plus, I couldn't stomach the thought of making out with someone with no teeth...
• (#16) Ex Marks The Spot

  Posted by Redditor /u/Atticus462:

  Found a profile using a picture of me that was obviously ripped from my Facebook account. Come to find out it was my ex-wife trying to stir up drama and problems between my current wife and myself. A single friend of ours texted me a screen shot of it. My wife is an intelligent woman and didn’t fall for it.

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