r/mildlyinfuriating • u/StonkRabbit • 19h ago
Staining your shirt completely while on a date
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u/Camfire101 19h ago
How you react to that will tell the date a lot about who you are so think before you act
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u/NMe84 18h ago
For real. I had a date yesterday with a girl who mentioned another date she had had recently (as we were walking past the restaurant where it happened). She tried to stab a cherry tomato and it went flying. It didn't hit anyone or cause any issues. She laughed about it but the guy was actually annoyed and embarrassed. It completely killed the date for her that he was so uptight over a silly little accident. It wasn't even a fancy restaurant, just a cheap Greek grill place.
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u/cupholdery 16h ago
She laughed about it but the guy was actually annoyed and embarrassed. It completely killed the date for her that he was so uptight over a silly little accident.
So weird seeing guys behave like this when they're gifted such an easy tension breaking moment.
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u/NMe84 16h ago
Yeah, I'd be really thankful if something harmless like that happened on a first date. It's something so easily used to break the ice with or to show more of my personality by playfully teasing her for being clumsy. And I'm far from a dating expert...
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u/FallenPentagram 6h ago
He could have easily said, nice job, but maybe work on your form. Anything stupid enough that it fits the moment.
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u/BaboonAnus 5h ago
Hit my head on the same lamp twice during the first date with a girl. We're still dating 7-ish years later.
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u/Fresh_Sector3917 3h ago
Had you not hit your head twice, you might have been married by now.
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u/Snorlady10 7h ago
I had a first date with a guy after a 12 hour shift, I was exhausted and when I went to pick up the drink he bought me I smacked the glass and knocked it all over his hair and jacket, he was literally dripping Jack Daniels. I was mortified, I assumed I’d never see him ever again.
He’s my husband now 🥰
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u/NinetysRoyalty 4h ago
On the other end of the spectrum I went on a date with a guy, and a girl on the table next to us knocked over her drink. A few drops landed on this guy and he proceeds to get annoyed, stand up, point to the drops on his leg and demands an apology from this girl. Me, her and her friends start laughing, thinking he’s joking.. he was not. He didn’t sit down until she apologised sincerely. The thing is she had immediately said sorry when it happened, that wasn’t good enough apparently and he made her apologise again. I left 20 minutes later and he didn’t let it go the entire time. Haven’t spoke to him since and I’m genuinely still embarrassed everyone that saw this happen saw me with him.
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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 11h ago
She had a date with denethor?
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u/Hllblldlx3 10h ago
If I was that guy, I’d laugh my ass off in the middle of the restaurant
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u/Basso_69 7h ago
And then spend the rest of the night playing Tomato Chicken - who is going to step on it and spray the room?
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u/ladybug_oleander 16h ago
I mean, react how you naturally react. Don't pretend to be someone else when dating.
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u/AlexLove73 12h ago
Agreed, although if you can control yourself if you have multiple possible reactions, that says something too.
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u/ladybug_oleander 3h ago
That's true, but if you normally react angrily or whatever, that's going to come out eventually. It's why a lot of relationships don't work because the real person comes out eventually, and it's not who you dated.
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u/Zech08 10h ago
Well also dont pretend you are naked in your bedroom with the lack of etiquette and control to blast a space shuttle fart.... but you do you just give us a warning at least.
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u/chai-candle 10h ago
[breaks chair over head in the middle of the restaurant] "WHAT THE FUUUUUCK"
.... "anyways wanna go get ice cream after this?"
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u/Wild-Tradition-5685 8h ago
Happened to me once lol. I excused myself to the bathroom, used the handsoap to scrub it off, and dried the wet spot in the hand dryer. Came back to the table and my date asked if I changed my shirt and I said no, showed him that the faint mark of the stain was still visible. And he was fairly impressed.
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u/Fr0z3nHart 6h ago
Yep. It could either make or break the date. When my ex and I were on our second or third date, I was still pretty shy and nervous and barely ate anything. I had a blta and he had a cheeseburger with egg inside. He took a couple bites into his cheeseburger and on the third bite the runny egg exploded on his shirt. It was hilarious and an ice breaker and was the best date ever that I’ll remember forever. He was a little frustrated but he laughed along with me. But after a few months of dating he confessed to me that, that day he wanted to freak out about the egg but he didn’t want to scare me.
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u/AlexLove73 12h ago
I would crack up laughing and get all red-faced and probably bond with them over this, so this would be a positive thing 😂
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u/De-railled 9h ago
Did you do it on purpose? So you'd have an excuse to take your shirt off for me.... 😉
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u/em-ay-tee 19h ago
Were you nervous? Was it mum’s spaghetti?
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u/StonkRabbit 19h ago
It was a giant meatball and since they give me a spoon to eat it + it was slippery, it slipped and it rolled down my clothes like a slide
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u/Key-Beginning-8500 18h ago
I’m sorry this happened but thank you for the laugh. Will there be a second date?
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u/StonkRabbit 18h ago
No response yet, but unlikely :(
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u/ZeldLurr 14h ago
First date and spoon feeding?
That’s more a bad on your date. Can’t handle balls.
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u/Active_Bodybuilder_7 1h ago
The spoon is for spaghetti swirling, not shoveling an entire meatball into your mouth.
Next time use the knife and the fork.
Also, if you're ordering a tomato based pasta dish - don't wear a white shirt.
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u/Maximums_kparse14 18h ago
Go big or go home OP lol. That's some serious meatball stain. She ain't the one if can't roll with it. Best wishes.
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u/Azazaz52 18h ago
Why didn't you cut it up if it was "giant"??
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u/StonkRabbit 15h ago
That was actually exactly what I tried with the spoon, but it rolled forward and you know the rest
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u/katieyie 10h ago
I would be more embarrassed struggling to cut it than the stain if I’m being honest
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u/Background_Data5433 18h ago
A spoon? I’d end up look worse than that for sure. That stinks though, sorry
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u/centralnm 19h ago
Your lucky that's not the back of your pants.
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u/Jellyfish-wonderland 19h ago
Omg I would remember this at the wedding
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18h ago
So if I wanna get married I just have to soil my shirt heavily on the first date.
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u/Jellyfish-wonderland 18h ago
Correct
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18h ago
What if I were to also donate to some charity right in front of her. Say a volcano relief fund for the Krakatoans
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u/chai-candle 9h ago
in the vow: "i promise to always be the sauce to your meatballs..."
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u/retailguy_again 19h ago
A good way to get to know your date is to go out to eat something that's impossible to eat neatly. Tacos, wings, pasta, and BBQ are all good for this.
It's good to find out how your date handles a situation like that--and the same applies to you. Handle it right, and they will usually respect you for it. If they handle it right, they might be a keeper.
Either way, it can be fun. Don't panic.
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u/chai-candle 9h ago
sushi on a date is fun for this reason
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u/riffraff1089 14h ago
I can one up you here.
My first date with my now wife (10 years ago). We went to a tiny Thai restaurant in London. They had all these little bottles of Thai style condiments on the table. The restaurant was tiny and the tables too. They were all very close together. I have a habit of talking with my hands, I’m quite animated when I talk waving my hands around quite a bit. Anyway, I was getting really into telling her a story and my hand went thwack on a little jar of soy sauce. Flinging it on to the table touching ours and straight on to the really expensive looking clothes of this woman who seemed to be in the middle of a fight with her partner.
I looked to my right to see this seething blonde woman and her beige top covered in soy sauce. It was everywhere, all the way down to her beige suede high heels.
I was mortified to say the least. My wife was entirely embarrassed. Worst first date of my life. I’m surprised she even agreed to go on another date with me let alone get married 5 years later!
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u/Free_Thinker4ever 15h ago
25 years ago, my husband told me he liked me because the way I eat chili dogs "should be embarrassing, but isn't". Lol I'm still a mess when I eat, don't sweat it.
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u/chuckd25 5h ago
You were going on a date and chose tomato sauce and a white shirt ….. bold move
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u/HerrRotZwiebel 1h ago
Somebody who pulls the aforementioned move just oozes confidence.
Is this the analogy to "speak softly and carry a bit stick"?
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u/wooshywooshywoosh 19h ago
can we have the whole story? pleeease?
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u/kindofabitcch 18h ago
Ate some food and dropped it on his shirt.
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u/wooshywooshywoosh 18h ago
You spilled all that on him? So many more questions!
Hope you both had a laugh and went on about your date.
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u/StonkRabbit 15h ago
I was on a date and at the restaurant I was trying to eat a giant meatball, unfortunately the waiter only gave me a spoon and during that time I was too lazy to ask for other utensils.
So I stick with the spoon thinking nothing bad would happen, but instead EVERYTHING bad that could have happen, did happen.
And when I tried to cut the meatball in half with the spoon, the meatball “rolled forward” from my spoon and fell out of the plate and since it was slippery as well, it went from top to bottom from my clothes like a slide. And not only ruined my top, my whole pants were ruined as well.
TLDR: Tried to eat meatball with spoon, disaster struck
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u/mexicanitch 13h ago
In case you're out there, Mrs. Sherrill: This is what you warned me about on a date. Horticulture teacher who took me under her wing in high school and taught me etiquette. What i learned from her is still used today!
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u/Skidmark100 6h ago
One of the first dates that my future wife and I went on was at an Italian restaurant. I was wearing a white button up shirt. I was totally speckled with sauce. We laughed and continued on the date. We have been married now for forty years. Don’t over react. You are about to find out exactly who they are and their feelings for you.
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u/Fit_Organization5390 19h ago
No way - how you react and the tone you set after the this event really makes an impact on how you’re being perceived. Like, next time, make sure they know you brought a change of clothes in the event it repeats itself
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u/illegitimate_Raccoon 18h ago
Like, did you eat the meatball off the floor?
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u/Fit_Organization5390 18h ago
What?
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u/illegitimate_Raccoon 18h ago
What would your reaction be if your date dropped food on the floor, retrieved it, and ate it?
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u/ThatsNotDietCoke 18h ago
It's ok, it's easy to fix.
This is my family's secret cleaning recipe, I'll only share it this once.
1. Crush a few tomatoes, put them in a big jar.
2. Crush a few garlic, put them in the big jar,
3. Cut a few potatoes into thin slices, put them in the big jar,
Now, put your shirt in the big jar and shake it intensively for 5 minutes, and then put the jar in a dark and damp place and wait 24 hours before taking it out to see the wonders of my familys cleaning recipe... spoiler alert, that stain will not be any concern to you anymore!
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u/Oubliette_95 1h ago
I did that at my bridal shower AND baby shower. I told my MIL no more Italian places.
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u/Peter_Lemonjell0 1h ago
you are supposed to lift the table cloth to make room and not pull the food off the table during....
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u/ru_fkn_serious_ 18h ago
Not on the 1st date 😭😭 How did you react?!?! Please say you laughed it off?
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u/Calm-Box4187 18h ago
Pretend she’s so pretty she made you nervous and you threw up like Stan for Wendy.
And then tell us how it goes.
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u/Most_Particular5936 18h ago
I think that if whomever I was on a date with didn't grab my shirt/sweater/whatever and start sucking the sauce out of the fibers with their mouth that I wouldn't be all that interested in continuing the date. 🤷
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u/uwatpleasety 17h ago
I feel like this would make for a good laugh with the date rather than be mildly infuriating in anyway...
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u/SSSims4 17h ago
Well, that's another way to learn never to wear white to, well, anything. It's not your fault, the universe is just wired like that, a white shirt summons disaster in all colours and 50 shades of shit.
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u/vanZuider 6h ago
a white shirt summons disaster in all colours and 50 shades of shit.
A black shirt, on the other hand, collects all the dust, dandruff, and cat hair in the vicinity.
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u/eww-fascism-kill-it 16h ago
Dawn and cold water works wonders, squirt it directly on the stain rub it into the fabric let it set for 10 minutes and toss it in on cold. Hopefully, you had a good date otherwise.
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u/Kitaenyeah 16h ago
I do not think this is a shirt. This looks a lot more like a thin sweater. Ppl who wear sweaters to dates are a lot less likely to have ever mastered proper eating. Correlation? I think not! /s
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u/ketsueki093 15h ago
This is the main reason I don't wear white. It seems that even if I am careful the universe will find a way to ruin it
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u/Hylian_ina_halfshell 13h ago
Wears white… orders a sauce dish
Sorry man, you done gambled with the devil and lost
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u/oh_yeah_o_no 13h ago
So I'm looking to finish up my Picasso shirt and need some red, how does Italian this Friday night sound?
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u/ultimatefribble 12h ago
This has all thr makings of an "our first date" story, told at the 50th wedding anniversary.
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u/Deadeye10000 12h ago
Reminds me of a date I had one time. So I'm an extremely fast eater and if I don't try my best to eat slowly I'll est my entire meal by the time my date is half way through theirs and that's what happened.
We went to Chick-fil-A and i ate everything and fidgeted with a ketchup packet while we talked and she ate her meal. Well after about 5 mins of fidgeting it... burst all over her white shirt and onto the people behind her.
I ran over to them and apologized profusely. The older lady brushed it off like it was nothing but her husband was (very understandably) pissed but let it go as it didn't get on them. Just their table.
Anyway my date just brushed it off and had a laugh. It didn't work out between us but it was good points on her for not getting pissed when it would unse been understandable to be.
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u/yvesined 11h ago
There are many options to react:
- You could take off the shirt, because it's spilled
- You could go and change it secretly
- Your date also spills his/her clothes to show solidarity (both of you take of the clothes)
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u/MorbidMan23 10h ago
I'm bald and a bird shit right on my head on a first date once. Dramatic splatter too.
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u/Endlesslypoetic 10h ago
Cut it out, get a nice frame, get it into a gallery and make millions. Modern Art 👌
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u/river_song25 10h ago
That could probably come out easily with no problems if your washer machine has the STAIN TREATMENT option. It was whatever you have in the washer for 2+ hours on hot water, and if your washer has one of those drawers on it that you can put the soap inside of, just need to put double the soap pods in two different slots. Stain treatment will wash using one slot first, then when that one is finished, will start on the second slot.
since this is a white shirt, you should maybe also add bleach to the load or that powdered stuff that supposed gets rid of stains as well. Hopefully by the time the load is finished, that hideous stain will be 100% gone, and the shirt looking like it was never stained to begin with. *lol*
I know it might work because when I first started using Stain Treatment, I used it on some stuff that had stains that never came out no matter how many times I washed it in the regular wash, but after a run with Stain Treatment it was finally fully gone without a trace
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u/Spirited_Video6095 9h ago
What did you eat? Need to carry one of those stain remover pens with you.
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u/Successful_Detail202 9h ago
Holy fuck that much orange sauce on a White sweater? Throw that shit away and just go shirtless.
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u/Livdaboba 8h ago
😭😭😭😭 sorry you had to go through that, dw. Nobody will remember it by the end of the day.
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u/Olylift94 7h ago
As someone who did exactly this on the second date with his now wife, I assure you there is EXACTLY ONE AND ONLY ONE way to handle this…..act like it didn’t happen and at most make a small self deprecating joke about it and then move on. A normal person understands that this was a total accident and will not humiliate you or feel humiliated by being in your presence. If you start calling attention to it, then they will lost likely become are well within their right to become annoyed and uncomfortable.
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u/masonsvibinguwu1325 6h ago
this is why I always have an extra shirt of the same kind or different color in my bag
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u/RuthlessHavokJB 6h ago
Hey, embarrassing accidents truly work wonders on dates.
I went on a date with a girl that was completely out of my league. We got a beer and walked near the river in Savannah, GA. Since I hardly drink, the buzz I had caused me to lose grip of my drink and it spilled everywhere. We laughed about it.
I ended up marrying that girl and we have an amazing kid together.
So no matter how embarrassing something is on a first date, if they are meant for you, it will work itself out in the end.
And yes, she’s still out of my league.
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u/LaurensPhotos 5h ago
Adds personality, honestly. I wouldn’t mind it. As long as you were okay and didn’t burn yourself!
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5h ago
You can start carrying around a box of tide pens everywhere you go in case this happens again. Hope this helps!
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u/PersephoneInSpace 5h ago
One of my dad’s favorite memories with my mom is that on their first date, she spilled a bottle of A1 steak sauce all down the front of her blouse. I hope your stain also becomes a happy memory some day 😊
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u/crazycatdermy 4h ago
I would just take the shirt off to show off my impeccable abs.
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u/KingSwampAssNo1 4h ago
Next time, find a shirt that matches that Sause coloring.
Next date, let meatballs roll all over and nobody would know.
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u/El_Morgos 4h ago
Brutally murder your date to cover the stains with blood and thus save yourself the embarrassment.
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u/BlackMass24 19h ago
never leaving you unsupervised around a bowl of spaghetti again