Your not-so-secret single behaviour
Bad dates, disastrous DMs and everything in between...
After a night at his, I woke up the next day to him announcing “great news”… he’d just got a text to say his STI test results were negative.
NICOLA, 30
I returned from a walk to find my block of flats taped off. When I asked what was happening, the police officer turned around. It was a guy I’d been on a very awkward date with five months before.
AMY, 35
He invited me for a drink but cancelled an hour before. When I bumped into him a few days later, he casually mentioned he’d had a partner for eight years.
GEORGINA, 21
I went back to his after our date and his flat was filthy – pennies and tobacco were scattered everywhere, and the cushions looked like they’d been ripped up by a dog. I didn’t hang around.
ANNIKA, 26 Have you ever tasted your own ear wax? LOL, what? Maybe when I was a kid or something? How was it? Describe it It was at this point I thought about flushing my phone down the toilet. Liv, 27
Due to lockdown, we met to walk around a park – in winter. After 10 minutes, he threw down his coat and said, “Let’s sit here.” He produced a bottle of wine and wanted to pass it between us. I declined (hello, pandemic!), so sat shivering, watching him get drunk.
LENORA,* 22
He arrived at the bar and said he needed to quickly pop next door to Sainsbury’s, pick something up and drop it off at home. I thought it was odd but that maybe he wanted to chill some wine in case we ended up going home together. He never came back.
GEORGIE, 29