26 Shocking Red Flags People Encountered on a First Date

First dates are full of suspense. That’s what makes them so exciting and so miserable at the same time, that your next couple hours could exist literally anywhere on the spectrum of human enjoyment. You might feel immediately that you’ve met your better half, the person who completes you and you’ll spend the rest of your life with. On the flip side, you might still meet the person you’ll spend the rest of your life with — but only because you’ll be strung up in a refrigerated meat locker by daybreak.

Of course, those are the extremes. There’s all sorts of good and bad in between. Fun flings you both know are going nowhere. Getting bombarded with information on a litany of boring siblings. Eating a really great meal for free. Paying for two really bad meals. Whatever the outcome, there’s usually a moment where you realize this is or isn’t going to work out, and Redditors shared their starkest examples of the latter. 

Read on to hear the events that immediately preceded a raised hand and a “check, please.”