What's your favorite story from ABCotD?

[theoccasionalfish]

I have so many favorite stories, it's hard to think of them all. Some that hold a special place in my heart are the one about the guy who wanted to dress up as a princess and have the girl dress up as a pea and lie under the mattress, "Welcome to Guys" because really, that's so gross it's funny, and one from way back when where the guy keeps touching himself and declares, "my boys are jonesin'!" So what about you? What's your favorite?

[JMG]

"MAH BOYS ARE JONESIN'!"

I'll have to think about which ones are my favorites, as I like 'em all for different and strange reasons.

[theoccasionalfish]

Jared, I wouldn't expect you to be able to pick favorites. They're all your babies. "I like them all equally!" But seriously, which is your favorite? Just kidding :)

[Nikki C]

$600 hat on the first date
creepy cult ritual in a farm on a first date
girl who kept smashing a tea cup over her head

Really, anything ballsy and outlandish that makes you wonder if it *actually* happened, then sad when you realized that it probably really did.

[thepastryfascist]

Nikki C wrote

Really, anything ballsy and outlandish that makes you wonder if it *actually* happened, then sad when you realized that it probably really did.

This.

[Hexonxonx]

Definitely gotta go with Pumpkin Pie.  It's become one of my go-to thoughts when I need to cheer myself up.

[JMG]

Great choice, Hex.  It's amazing how the world we live in would be a very different place if it were true.

[geomorphgirl]

Hexonxonx wrote

Definitely gotta go with Pumpkin Pie.  It's become one of my go-to thoughts when I need to cheer myself up.

This whole blog has become my go-to when I need to cheer myself up about awful dates!  

[Princess]

Nikki C wrote

girl who kept smashing a tea cup over her head

Teacup girl was hilarious- I laughed so hard my roommate came running in to see if I was okay.

[Ari]

I really don't think I can choose one favorite. Besides, I'm not done reading the archives yet. They're all just so wonderful. XD

At some point I'll submit a story or two myself, but I'm afraid all of mine fall on the "normal" side of bad dates. Nothing crazy or that memorable, at least not that I can think of offhand. I'll dig a little deeper though. Maybe I suppressed something from my college days, and I'll unearth a horrendous memory and be able to keep you guys (as well as my therapist) happy.

[Coriolanus]

The girl who gave the BJ just so her date could drive her home or something... is that how that one went?

[Nikki C]

YES! Coriolanus! God, I had almost forgotten about that one! Do you remember the vitriolic comment war that came after that story? Did *anyone* take that poor, stupid girl's side? Oh man, I might have to find that one in the archives and reread it.

New tag: A Bad Case of the Lack of Self-Respect.

[Coriolanus]

Haha no! I don't believe anyone managed to deign that poor girl with the smallest morsel of sympathy. And they shouldn't have! She deserved the hate. I've been trying to look for it myself, but the archives have gotten pretty large now.

[Nikki C]

Yeah, that's why I proposed that Jared get an intern to go through everything and make the archives easier to manage. Maybe make a calendar, where you can click on a date to see the entries from just that day. (Kinda like how they have it set up at LiveJournal...God, I'm dating myself, aren't I?) Or rank in order of highest comments or something.

[JMG]

The post you're referring to is:

http://www.abadcaseofthedates.com/2010/03/from-please-dont-breed-department.html


I am my own intern.  I never mess up my coffee order.

[Nikki C]

Ah, but do you give yourself blow jobs under your work desk?

[JMG]

No.  I have real interns for that.  Also, they asked me to thank you for that manual you wrote up for them.  It really helps with the workflow.

[Nikki C]

No worries. I write the (much less sexual) manual for my IRL job, and writing up one more didn't take much time. When the sections of YOUR manual slipped into MY manual however (heh..."manual"), that's when things took a turn for the worse.

[JMG]

On a similar note, you ever send a message (text or email) to the VERY wrong person?

[Nikki C]

A few years ago, I reconnected with an old friend in high school who had been like a sister to me. She eloped to Las Vegas and had kids, so we fell out of touch.

She and I had a great email exchange, updating each other on our lives and cracking jokes. Knowing that my parents would love to read how Lizzie was doing (since, again, she had been like a sister to me and another daughter to my parents), I forwarded my mom the email...completely forgetting that about halfway down, she and I talked about our marijuana use (fairly heavy for me in college, and fairly heavy for her in high school, tapering down once she had her kids). My mom didn't know that I had ever smoked marijuana.

Later that night, I got a stony phone call from Mom. No hello, no how are you, just "YOU SMOKED *MARIJUANA*?!?!?!?!" Then I had to lie and tell her that I didn't do it anymore ("significantly cut down" is more true) and that college was a difficult time, all my friends were doing it, blah blah blah. We never talked about it again.