Dates can go from good to bad to complete fiasco faster than Lindsay Lohan can violate her parole. LSU students reveal their most embarrassing, awkward and outlandish dates.
The date that makes you say, “Gee, look at the time, is it fifth grade already?”
 Olivia Vidal, Mass Communication senior, says her date for a sorority semi-formal ditched her with a promise to return.
“He was oh so kind enough to ask me if it was OK to dance with another girl,” Vidal explained. “I said OK.”
Vidal says that her date promised to come and find her after his rendezvous with sorority girl two.
“Well, ‘be right back’ turned into ‘time to leave’ and when he found me he asked if it was OK to ride on the bus back to the sorority house with another girl.”
Vidal said when he asked her she was past the point of caring and replied, “Yeah, go, I only asked you because I needed a date.”
In her anger, Vidal called her roommate to pick her up from the sorority house and channeled some ninja stealth to avoid having her date see her go.
“I got into [my roommate’s] car and shouted ‘Go! Go! Go!’ It was probably a little extreme but after ditching me at my event that I asked him to, he could find his own damn ride home.”
The pay your own way date
Andre Whiting, a biological engineering senior, encounter the classic “forgotten wallet scenario when on a dinner and a movie date.
Whiting says she went out dinner with a guy who later insisted she buy her own movie ticket because he was tapped out.
“I said, you got to be trippin’. No I am not paying for my ticket.” Whiting recalled.
While some believe that a first date should be split 50/50, others prefer the old-fashioned “male buys all” way. If a guy says he’ll pay, a girl expects him to pay and not back out at the last second.
Whiting says the date went on a downward spiral after the ticket incident, with her escort getting too close for comfort.
“We went back to his brothers house and he tried to have sex with me.” Whiting says she wasn’t all too interested in perusing him any further and quickly dismissed him.
The “forgotten wallet” date
Cornetta Mosley, a communication disorders junior, went on the bad date trifecta. From forgotten wallet, to broken down car to the embarrassing parental interception.
Mosley says she went on a movie date with a guy who picked her up and then claimed to forget his wallet.
“He said ‘Oh, man, I forgot my wallet’ and I said  well then, you better go get it.” Mosley recalled.
When her date returned with wallet, Mosley says they did the awkward “are you paying for this or am I?” dance at the ticket window.
“It was that thing where you don’t know who will pay so I waited for him to go to the window and he just bought one ticket,” Mosley said she as a little disappointed at that.
Tickets purchased separately, Mosley and her date sat through the movie and made their way home.
“On the way back, his trick cut off,” Mosley said, “Police were coming from the other direction and helped push the truck.”
Completing the bad date was Mosley’s mother who had to save the stranded couple and drive them home.
“We didn’t go out again.” Said Mosley.
 
The date that gives hope for a future
When Mass Communication sophomores Taylor Lionnet and Miranda Smith met in their junior year of high school, their relationship started off with an awkward bang.
“It was our third date, we went to the movies and we were making out,” said Lionnet. “I jokingly lipped to her ‘Will you marry me?'”
Perhaps mid-make out was not the best time to faux propose because according to Smith, something got lost in translation.
“Afterwards, I went to a sleep over,” Smith explained. “I was telling all my friends Taylor asked me to be his girlfriend because I thought he said, ‘Will you go out with me?'”
Smith said when she texted Lionnet later asking if he had been planning on asking her out the whole time his response was a not-so-subtle, “What are you talking about?”
“I said were you planning on asking me out and he said he didn’t ask me out.” Smith said.
The two worked through the awkward moment and have been a couple for two and a half years.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Taylor Lionnet 504-717-3158 [email protected]
Miranda Smith 504-717-5150 [email protected]
Olivia Vidal 985-373-2804 [email protected]
Andrea Whiting 504-710-7515 [email protected]
Cornetta Mosley 469-420-4680 [email protected]
 
Picture captions:
Dating 1- Taylor Lionnet and Miranda Smith have been dating for two and a half years despite their awkward beginning.
Dating 2- Andrea Whiting had a date that got a little too close.
Dating 3- Cornetta Mosley had a bad date, three fold: forgotten wallet, broken down truck and family interception.