Here Are 30 Silly Yet Valid Reasons For Refusing To Date Someone As Shared In This Online Group
Author and cartoonist Scott Adams once noted that “Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
And while you can explain lotteries using numbers, and religion using philosophy, dating, relationships, and love in general are tough nuts to crack. But some still do try to explain themselves when it comes to dating, even if their reasoning is petty.
Not too long ago, folks on Reddit shared reasons—petty, yet more or less still rightful or fair enough ones, and sometimes just plain weird—to not date someone. And if you’ve been here long enough, you’ll know we covered a similar thread not too long ago, so you can check that out once you’re done with this one.
So, scroll down to enjoy some of the best and most entertaining responses to the now-viral thread, which garnered over 36,000 upvotes, and be sure to share your petty 'never dating this person' stories in the comment section below.
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Chews with their mouth open.
I can't date anyone with lip injections. It felt super unnatural kissing her. Like kissing a baboon with rigor mortis.
I instantly noped out of an otherwise fine blind date when she ordered apple juice - off menu - at a fancy restaurant. 19-year-old me only knew apple juice as a toddler's drink, and I just couldn't get past it.
I'm no longer that petty. But I did make the mistake of mentioning this to my wife once, many years ago. And she now makes a habit of ordering apple juice whenever we're at a fancy restaurant, just to see if I squirm.
I almost broke up with a girl when she was trying to be seductive and yanked my book out of my hand and closed it losing my spot.
My wife once told me she couldn't be with someone who wasn't around the same level of intelligence as she. I have no idea how I'm going to keep it a secret that I'm a f*****g idiot the rest of our lives.
Lol its kinda like when youre in an argument with someone stupider than you
I had a guy break up with me in high school because God told him to… I was like uh okay guess I can’t argue with that one.
She said i drove slow on our date. She likes men that live "dangerously"
It snowed heavily while we were at a fancy dinner. I was in my father's car because I had just gotten back from Iraq.
She called me a week later, I said I need a woman that is more down to earth.
People that like to “debate” too much. I’m all for having your own opinion but when someone thinks they have to be the devil’s advocate constantly? No thanks.
She ate pizza with her hands.No, not like you think. She would scoop up the toppings in a messy pile and like a animal, claw them up and eat them then rip the bread and eat it.We were at a fancy italian place and I got horrified.
On another note, does anyone happen to know which restaurant the picture was taken at? (asking for a friend...)
Into star signs and the like. To the point of being reminded what sign you are which somehow has an effect of who you and your personality traits lol
If their Instagram is nothing but selfies, especially if they’re striking the same pose in every shot. I had a match like that and it honestly creeped me out.
If they're super into Disney stuff, it creeps me out for some reason.
They pronounce the word "expresso" when they mean "espresso", or "expecially" instead of "especially."
She talks to people like they're a hundred meter away from her.
Or someone close to her is hard of hearing, like a parent or sibling
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I admit, I speak loud, but growing up my mother had hearing issues which was hereditary so it led to me, so I grew up speaking loud so she could hear me and myself as well. I hope someone will love me because of my loud talking lol. 😂
I have a friend who does this. She is just…loud. I have to constantly remind her to lower her voice. She doesn’t have a hearing impairment, just a booming voice!
Brother's grandfather gave me a plaque when I was about 10. It said "Oh, Lord Fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff and nudge me when I've said enough!" It was a joke in my family so no hurt feelings on my part, but I really can be very loud
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I have an auditory processing disorder where I can’t hear more than 1 main subject at a time (like 2 people talking at dinner, or talking with the car window down, etc). Sometimes if there’s a lot of noise I can’t hear my own voice. If any of those things get particularly loud, it all just starts sounding like gibberish.
Oh I so agree with this! I think it might stem from childhood dynamics e.g. I was brought up in a household of 2 parents and I was one of 4 children. We also had 2 grandparents living with us plus a boarder who rented the side flat of the property. We had to speak quietly and in a well modulated voice since pretty much toddlerhood. Fast forward a couple of decades and I met people from large families and even married one and for them to get their point across I guess they had to be vocally loud. I can't stand it. I have questioned loud people in my adulthood if they have had their hearing checked. Either way it's a big bug bear/ear worm to me.
Podium speaker. Yep. They talk to the room. You can spot one easily, because you'll ask them a question and they will take a step back, spread their arms, and talk loudly over your head. Happens a lot at work where an employee will answer a question in a ridiculously loud voice so that all the important people can hear how great she is too. When they do this, I always turn my back to them to face whomever it is that they are trying to talk at, because it isn't me, even though it was my question.
Really loud people annoy me no end. Say it - no need to shout it to all and sundry. It comes off as aggressive and it’s not a good look. Dial it down please 🙂
My boss talks like this. But his ears are fine. He is just an a......
I have a friend and she is great she just talks really loudly and it sometimes makes me feel embarrassed
I do this too. This would be very petty cuz I roar if I’m having a good conversation
Just throwing out there, my sister does this thing that if she doesn't know you or not friends she speaks really quietly but then if you're family or friend it's absurdly loud. I never understood and she has no hearing issues
She did that thing with her voice where every sentence she said ended with a question mark.
Follow-up: Since so many people have asked, she was not Australian. She's American.
Ended things with a guy over various other reasons, but the most annoying was how many times he told me that "He'd leave me for Miranda Lambert in a heart beat". Which okay, I get it some people have a 'list' of celebrities they'd leave their S/O over, mostly as a joke. But this was like everyday, just randomly said not related to the conversations we were having at the time, and he meant it. He made sure I understood that if for some god forsaken reason Miranda Lambert walked in through the front door, I was gone.
She insisted on hanging out at home. She lived with like 6 people, and they always had friends over. I felt like a bf extra on Friends or Seinfeld.
He ate with closed fists around his utensils like a toddler and his face right up to his food like someone was going to steal it.
My grandparents were very southern. When I was a kid, I spent the night at their house and heard them…wrestling. I heard my grandpa say my grandma’s name, Sarah, but with his accent he said “Ooh Say-ruh!”
I met a girl named Sarah who was also southern. When she introduced herself as “Say-ruh” I had to nope out. It just gave me the heebie jeebies.
White spittle gathering at the edge of the mouth. I can forgive or overlook a lot of things, but that’s an instant turnoff.
Edit: Every day is a school day! Apparently this can be a sign of dehydration or linked to another condition I’ve seen called Angular Cheilitis.
Loud person. No. I hate it.
Mute button is to kill off convos. Volume is because they are too loud. I would use both.
They are deathly allergic to nuts.
The idea of never having Nutella or Snickers again- or risk killing my partner with a kiss- is too much.
Only went on one date but he named his cat Creamy, and the way he said it grossed me out.
She had the same first name and last name as my grandpa.
I broke up with a pretty hot girl when I was younger because she didn’t swing her arms when she walked. It just looked weird and reminded me of a gorilla. Really stupid reason I know, but it just looked so stupid and I couldn’t overcome it.
Well that what you get for buying the cheaper version of the new life like dolls. Next time spring for the upgrades, like I did.
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I once left a date sitting in a restaurant because he kept dipping his fries in my ketchup. Let me explain: first date, we just met and went to a burger bar. We both ordered burgers and fries, and the ketchup was there on the table. I made a little puddle of ketchup on my plate and he just reached over and used it. Now, I come from a family of plate sharers, so it isn't like I am a germaphobe or anything, but I just met this dude, he reached across the table dragged his half-eaten fry across my plate. I pushed the bottle of ketchup towards him and told him to make his own puddle. He did it again. I told him I didn't like that and get his own ketchup. He did it a third time and winked at me. I grabbed my purse, put down enough cash to pay for my meal and walked out. It was the creepiest thing in the entire world and after being told it bothered me, he did it again.
100% the right call to leave, I wonder if he was deliberately testing your response to him ignoring your boundaries after you told him not to?
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I had a co-worker (who I never dated) a really long time ago who couldn't understand why he never had more than 1 or 2 dates with women. It was because any conversation with him couldn't be a regular conversation - literally anything a woman said to him was responded to in a sexual way. He turned everything into something pornographic. News. Weather. Work. Car trouble. Ex partner problems. Landlord issues. Problems paying bills. If you had a headache or any pain/illness, he suggested a sexual cure. I do give the guy credit, he never did that if children were mentioned. But wow, it was a major turn-off after 10 minutes for me, I cannot imagine how he got more than one date!
That is super creepy! Did no one explain to him why since he wondered himself?
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Happen to be walking behind him one day for whatever reason and noticed he walked like a duck, kinda, sorta. It was just weird and I had never noticed it before. I was ready to break up anyway, so I use that as my excuse. It had been a year and I was getting really bored.
There's only a few things I notice right away in a person I'm just meeting. His hands, his fingers, his nails. Then eyes and a smile. And last but not least, the way he walks. Order doesn't matter, those few things matter to me. There's no way that in a year I wouldn't know the way my bf walks. Well, that's how I can single him out of a group of people from afar. :)
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I kicked a guy out of my car and didn't even finish the date once...it wasn't bad enough that I had to pick him up but as we were driving off he decided to pop in his Eminem CD in my radio and turn it up loud...HELL NO...GTFO!
I dumped a guy because he was a horrible driver. I feared for my life every time we went out.
I dumped a guy for calling me too much. like he'd call 2-3 times a day and usually while I was at work. wtf. back off, dude. When I asked why he was calling me at work and explained I am busy working(I was managing a 4000 sq ft store with 23 employees) he got indignant and said that women like to be paid attention to and love it when you call them. I said not this woman. I don't want to hear that you miss me and talk about nonsense. I don't have time for that c**p b/c I'm an adult, not some needy 16 year old. Shoot me a text once a day if you want, spend a few minutes on the phone in the evening when not at work. Then he got attitude and said I was bossy...dude, I am the boss. These people work for me. Don't call me between 8-6...better yet don't call me again.
Oh, I hate the clingy ones! I dated a guy that was off work on a disability, and he would be waiting in my driveway every. single. day. when I got home from work. And he never wanted to stay in for dinner, or any other meal - he only wanted to go out to a specific handful of restaurants, on a weekly rotation. Had to dump him after about 2 months. Then he showed up at my parents house, 40 miles away, with flowers for my mom & begged them to convince me to take him back. That was way over the line, & I had to get a bit hard with him. It was really kind of sad.
Load More Replies... My reasons for rejecting someone on a dating app: 1. They say they are "fun, and live life to the fullest." NOPE. you are boring as f**k, I have zero doubts about it. 2. They say they are sapiosexual. NOPE. IF you have to say you are smart/attracted-to-smart you probably aren't. 3. They are kissing their dog. Sorry, not into sharing your mouth with your dog. Gross, but that's the fact. 4. They are posing with duckface/holding a fish/dead animal/gun/sports car. NOPE. That means you are superficial and do not think beyond the moment. Also almost certainly means Republican. 5. They say politics doesnt interest them. 6. They 'have a personal relationship with jesus'. NOPE, yall ALWAYS try convert me at some stage. 7. "Whites only". Nope, if you want to be a Nazi, there's the door.
Those people who texts you and answers with you "fine, yes, no" and that's all the chat. Also people who gives you the "seen" but if you do so they get mad😂😂😂
Most of these people are so petty their S/O's must be much better off without them.
before my gf and me started dating a guy asked her out and she said as soon as she saw him she ran becaue he was ugly so when me and her were about to meet for the first time i was gonna have a break down if she ran away from me
I once broke up w a guy bc he tied his shoes too tight. Made his shoes look like clown shoes
You sound like you have a very peculiar set of priorities. I wonder if your sartorial aesthetics are 100% up to scratch as well?
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He had intimacy problems and then farted loud as hell during sex and continued laughing and making jokes about it until he left. Also broke up with a guy who said he had a pregnancy fetish.
I once left a date sitting in a restaurant because he kept dipping his fries in my ketchup. Let me explain: first date, we just met and went to a burger bar. We both ordered burgers and fries, and the ketchup was there on the table. I made a little puddle of ketchup on my plate and he just reached over and used it. Now, I come from a family of plate sharers, so it isn't like I am a germaphobe or anything, but I just met this dude, he reached across the table dragged his half-eaten fry across my plate. I pushed the bottle of ketchup towards him and told him to make his own puddle. He did it again. I told him I didn't like that and get his own ketchup. He did it a third time and winked at me. I grabbed my purse, put down enough cash to pay for my meal and walked out. It was the creepiest thing in the entire world and after being told it bothered me, he did it again.
100% the right call to leave, I wonder if he was deliberately testing your response to him ignoring your boundaries after you told him not to?
Load More Replies... I had a co-worker (who I never dated) a really long time ago who couldn't understand why he never had more than 1 or 2 dates with women. It was because any conversation with him couldn't be a regular conversation - literally anything a woman said to him was responded to in a sexual way. He turned everything into something pornographic. News. Weather. Work. Car trouble. Ex partner problems. Landlord issues. Problems paying bills. If you had a headache or any pain/illness, he suggested a sexual cure. I do give the guy credit, he never did that if children were mentioned. But wow, it was a major turn-off after 10 minutes for me, I cannot imagine how he got more than one date!
That is super creepy! Did no one explain to him why since he wondered himself?
Load More Replies... Happen to be walking behind him one day for whatever reason and noticed he walked like a duck, kinda, sorta. It was just weird and I had never noticed it before. I was ready to break up anyway, so I use that as my excuse. It had been a year and I was getting really bored.
There's only a few things I notice right away in a person I'm just meeting. His hands, his fingers, his nails. Then eyes and a smile. And last but not least, the way he walks. Order doesn't matter, those few things matter to me. There's no way that in a year I wouldn't know the way my bf walks. Well, that's how I can single him out of a group of people from afar. :)
Load More Replies... I kicked a guy out of my car and didn't even finish the date once...it wasn't bad enough that I had to pick him up but as we were driving off he decided to pop in his Eminem CD in my radio and turn it up loud...HELL NO...GTFO!
I dumped a guy because he was a horrible driver. I feared for my life every time we went out.
I dumped a guy for calling me too much. like he'd call 2-3 times a day and usually while I was at work. wtf. back off, dude. When I asked why he was calling me at work and explained I am busy working(I was managing a 4000 sq ft store with 23 employees) he got indignant and said that women like to be paid attention to and love it when you call them. I said not this woman. I don't want to hear that you miss me and talk about nonsense. I don't have time for that c**p b/c I'm an adult, not some needy 16 year old. Shoot me a text once a day if you want, spend a few minutes on the phone in the evening when not at work. Then he got attitude and said I was bossy...dude, I am the boss. These people work for me. Don't call me between 8-6...better yet don't call me again.
Oh, I hate the clingy ones! I dated a guy that was off work on a disability, and he would be waiting in my driveway every. single. day. when I got home from work. And he never wanted to stay in for dinner, or any other meal - he only wanted to go out to a specific handful of restaurants, on a weekly rotation. Had to dump him after about 2 months. Then he showed up at my parents house, 40 miles away, with flowers for my mom & begged them to convince me to take him back. That was way over the line, & I had to get a bit hard with him. It was really kind of sad.
Load More Replies... My reasons for rejecting someone on a dating app: 1. They say they are "fun, and live life to the fullest." NOPE. you are boring as f**k, I have zero doubts about it. 2. They say they are sapiosexual. NOPE. IF you have to say you are smart/attracted-to-smart you probably aren't. 3. They are kissing their dog. Sorry, not into sharing your mouth with your dog. Gross, but that's the fact. 4. They are posing with duckface/holding a fish/dead animal/gun/sports car. NOPE. That means you are superficial and do not think beyond the moment. Also almost certainly means Republican. 5. They say politics doesnt interest them. 6. They 'have a personal relationship with jesus'. NOPE, yall ALWAYS try convert me at some stage. 7. "Whites only". Nope, if you want to be a Nazi, there's the door.
Those people who texts you and answers with you "fine, yes, no" and that's all the chat. Also people who gives you the "seen" but if you do so they get mad😂😂😂
Most of these people are so petty their S/O's must be much better off without them.
before my gf and me started dating a guy asked her out and she said as soon as she saw him she ran becaue he was ugly so when me and her were about to meet for the first time i was gonna have a break down if she ran away from me
I once broke up w a guy bc he tied his shoes too tight. Made his shoes look like clown shoes
You sound like you have a very peculiar set of priorities. I wonder if your sartorial aesthetics are 100% up to scratch as well?
Load More Replies... He had intimacy problems and then farted loud as hell during sex and continued laughing and making jokes about it until he left. Also broke up with a guy who said he had a pregnancy fetish.
