GONE HORRIBLY WRONG

Think you had a bad first date? Here are 16 ways it could have really tanked.

Dating is hard. Between the photo-versus-real-life-looks discrepancies and the ability to learn with a quick Google search that your potential date played a cross-dressing Rolf in his high-school production of The Sound of Music, “Netflix and chill for one” forever may seem like a better idea. So while I’m not here to tell you it’s sunshine and roses out there, I would like to offer an almost-optimistic counter view: It could always be worse. How much worse? “Wore cowboy boots” worse. “Thinks ‘Evolution is probably a myth, if you think about it’” worse. Guys, I have seen some things. Below, please find an incomplete summary of ways your worst date could play out.