OC HIGH : STUDENT NEWS & VIEWS : What was the worst date of your life?

Responses gathered by Katie Rickard, Kennedy; Tricia Michels, Fountain Valley; Persida Brasov, Garden Grove; David Brinkman, Edison; Kelly Darling, Calvary Chapel; Luke Fenchel, University; Allison Smith, Corona del Mar; Jennie Timar, Los Alamitos; Eve Winnick, Loara; Leeza Duong, Santiago; Kathleen Chang, Westminster; Michelle Pham, Trabuco Hills; Hallie Kim, Brea-Olinda; Amanda Garcia, El Modena; Christine Monette, Rosary; Judy Tsai, Huntington Beach; Dana Lenetz, Foothill.

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“I was at a really expensive restaurant, and there was green fuzzy wallpaper and there was also a Heinz ketchup bottle on the table. I went to shake it, and it went all over the wall. So I took my cloth napkin, and I wiped the wall, and the fuzzies came off and there was a silver streak on the wall. And every time I wiped my mouth green fuzzies would come off of my napkin onto my face.”

Wendy Protzman, 17

senior, Calvary Chapel

“I took a girl to Knott’s, and she saw a guy she liked better than me because he was older and took off with him for the rest of the day. I don’t talk to her anymore.”

Josh Frates

junior, Kennedy

“With my friend’s boyfriend’s best friend. My friend and I waited for them at the skating rink. They were more than 1 1/2 hours late. It was no use trying to catch the movie we wanted to see, so we stayed and skated. They didn’t even know how to skate. There was no conversation at all. I told myself I would never go on a blind date again. The worst part is that they were late because they were watching the Laker’s game.”

Manita Manhnadong, 17

senior, Santiago

“Dating a guy whose idea of a good time was driving through abandoned alleys and unlit roads.”

Melissa Clay, 16

junior, Fountain Valley

“Last year, when I went to homecoming. We both hated the dance, so we went outside and danced to music on the car radio. After the dance, I took her home, and she broke up with me.

Brendan Cosgrove, 17

senior, El Modena

“When my boyfriend and I went to Ruby’s. He made me laugh so hard that I snorted my Pepsi out of my nose.”

Elyse Homberger, 16

junior, Edison

“I had a guy ask me out, and then I found out he was married.”

Isabel Apkarian, 16

senior, Corona del Mar

“I went to the movies with a blind date. While at the movies we got into a raging argument. We left the movies, or actually he left--leaving me stranded on the corner alone. I’ve never talked to him since.”

Jennifer Money, 17

senior, Rosary

“The time I took my girlfriend to a parade. A float ended up hitting her, breaking her leg.”

Joey Lee, 16

junior, Edison

“I never had a worst date. They all suck.”

Brandi Harms, 16

junior, Trabuco Hills

“I jokingly said something mean to my date and everyone was silent. Not a word. Nothing at all. You could hear a pin drop. And she walked away.”

Ace Climaco, 16

junior, Brea-Olinda

“When I went out with some girl and she was too embarrassed to eat in front of me. So all she had was a salad, and we got into an argument about that.”

Roy Sanchez, 18

senior, Sonora

“On the night of the winter formal, the limo driver left us stranded at our restaurant for two hours. He forgot to pick us up. We were at the dance for the last 45 minutes.”

Jana Arbanas, 16

junior, Foothill

“The first time I ever took a girl out, she ended up bringing her whole family, including her 6-year-old brother. For a kid in seventh grade, I’ll tell you, it was pretty traumatizing.”

Sasha Strauss, 17

senior, Huntington Beach

“When my dad made me write out an agenda of exactly what we were going to do.”

Susan Choe, 16

junior, Fountain Valley

“When I was stood up.”

Souxsie Kim, 16

junior, Garden Grove

“I tripped down the stairs in front of this guy I really liked.”

Kimberly Worshan, 16

senior, Calvary Chapel

“My freshman year,

a junior asked me to the prom and I didn’t really know him that well, but I decided to go with him anyway. Anyway, he was such a dweeb, and the whole night I was falling asleep whenever he started talking and I didn’t want to dance with him. And at the end, he wanted to kiss me, and it was so gross . . . . “

Anonymous, 16

junior, University

“I took my friend along with me, and my date ended up liking her.”

Susie Thai, 16

junior, Huntington Beach

“I took a girl to the movies and on the way I tried to make conversation. Every time I asked her a question, she would answer in one or two words and then turn around. She was so dull and boring. So that was my worst date, going with a girl that would not talk.”

Hai T. Nguien, 16

senior, Santiago

“I was 30 minutes late, all my plans fell through and I spilled food on myself.”

Toby Hoff, 18

senior, Trabuco Hills

“I thought we were going to go out alone, but when my date arrived, he had his little sister and his best friend with him. He spent the whole night talking to his sister.”

Jenn Newberg, 17

senior, El Modena

“Well, I can’t really say I’ve had any bad dates since I’ve only had two! But to choose, I’d say Sept. 2, 1992. The guy was a stupid jerk, we went to Johnny Rockets and he doggie-bagged fries home. How embarrassing!”

Kim Hsu, 16

senior, Loara

“I took a girl to the beach and my car broke down.”

Jason Zimmerman

junior, Kennedy

“Certainly one of the funniest was when I was in Denmark. I went to this carnival and met this guy named Christian. I thought he was the nicest, funniest, cutest guy that I had met that summer. I was also pretty close to being drunk at the time. The next day my friends were asking me how the ‘date’ went. Then they showed me his picture. Yuck! Later that night, I saw him again. He was the meanest, strange-looking jerk that I had ever met. I still have nightmares about that second date.”

Erin Anderson, 16

junior, Los Alamitos

“Going to the UB-40 concert with my ex-boyfriend because we just broke up after two years and I couldn’t hug him to thank him. It was hard. I had to get used to the fact that we were friends not boyfriend, girlfriend.”

Leah Arciniega

senior, Kennedy

“Going out with a girl who smelled really bad.”

Matt Wolcott, 15

sophomore, Fountain Valley

“I went to Disneyland with a guy I really liked. But once we got there, I saw his true colors. I almost faked getting sick.”

Kathyrn Feather, 16

junior, Garden Grove

“We were at Black Angus and we had ordered ribs and he dropped one in his lap. And so I went over to help and I ended up knocking his drink and his dinner into his lap.”

Anonymous, 17

senior, Calvary Chapel

“My boyfriend and I went out to dinner and a movie, but he lost his money so I had to pay for the whole thing. We went for ice cream afterward and got into a car accident.”

April Rutherford, 16

junior, Trabuco Hills

“When my boyfriend went out with a bunch of friends--we were going to the ice rink, but it was too expensive. No one could decide what to do, so we drove (around) all night.”

Jessica Hochanadel, 15

junior, Loara

“I went to the prom with a guy who didn’t acknowledge me the whole night. We went to a totally expensive restaurant and his friends were drunk, so they made us look like the biggest fools. I got home at 11 p.m. It was the worst experience!”

Anne Marie Hatchel, 16

junior, Brea-Olinda

“My best friend and I went on a double-date with this guy and his cousin. They told us they needed to be home by 9 p.m. because the cousin was in trouble. Later that night, we called his house and his mom told us they were out. It turns out they went out with other girls.”

Colleen Donald, 17

senior, El Modena

“When my friends set me up with a blind date and she ended up not liking me, and I ended up not liking her, and we ended up sitting there.”

Michael Freuy, 17

senior, Westminster

“I went out to dinner with my friend. The guy that we met there ordered food but did not have any money. Not only did I have to pay for their dinner, but their trip home too! They had the nerve to ask me for gas money.”

Stacey Jue, 16

junior, Edison

“It was prom night, and instead of going to the prom, ‘Jimmy’ wanted to go fishing all the way up in Silverwood Lake. He swore up and down he knew the way. We got lost. When we finally did get there, it was so cold we just stayed in the car. It was all right until on the way back we got lost again and ran out of gas by Lake Elsinor. He had to call his parents to pick us up because we thought something was wrong with the engine. Four guys tried to con us for money, and I didn’t get home until 5 a.m.”

Lan Anh Nguyen, 16

junior, Santiago

“I went to homecoming with this guy, and we went out to dinner and then went to the dance. When we got there, we danced like one dance and then he decided to go to a party with some of his friends. He left me at the dance, and I had to find a ride home with a friend and her date.”

Anonymous, 16

junior, University

“When I took a girl to dinner and all she ordered was 50-cents worth of tortillas from a fancy Mexican restaurant.”

K.C. Wolbert, 17

senior, Huntington Beach

“My friend and I went on this blind date with these 2 dorks we met ice skating. The first public embarrassment we suffered was bringing them to Hard Times to shoot pool. We then furthered the embarrassment by going to Toys ‘R Us and Chuckie Cheese. We tried to hide under a table and ditch them, but they found us eventually. They could not take a hint.”

Sara Burt, 16

junior, Rosary

“I went out with a group of friends one night, and one of my friends tried setting me up with this guy. Anyway, he was all over me the whole night and by the end of the night, one of the guys in our group, an old friend of mine, got mad and there was almost a fight.”

Anonymous, 15

sophomore, University