What’s the worst date you ever had?

Met someone on a dating app. I was very interested, and for some reason they kept talking to me too (it wasn't even the first time we had matched and messaged for quite a while). Met for coffee the first time, talked for hours without even realizing it.

The issue for me was the near panic I felt wash over me at the suggestion from her that we share an umbrella while we went walking. So, instead of sharing an umbrella, I walked in the (light) rain about four feet away from her, for the next hour and a half while we chatted.

I don't think I'm selling how crushing that feeling was, during and for a long time after... Basically, I discovered after four years of trying to start 'dating', that I was even more non-functional at the whole concept than I had ever imagined, and in the subsequent roughly three years... I haven't figured out how to even try again.

TL;DR: Date was fine, I discovered how much I was not. Don't even have some trauma or something to blame it on... just... myself.

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