Grab your flashlights and gather ‘round, Austinites. It’s storytime. Earlier this month, we asked readers to share dating horror stories that tragically occurred while trying to find love in the Capital City.
Without further ado, we’re presenting our top submissions, just in time for Halloween. Editor’s note: these submissions have been edited for readability. That’s ruff “Dated someone who (brushed) his dog’s teeth with his toothbrush.
Proceeded to wash the toothbrush in the washing machine...
then proceeded to brush his teeth with the same toothbrush. 🤯 The audacity to proceed to cheat on me.” Didn’t quite hook ‘em “When I was a freshman at the University of Texas, a friend of a friend got me a blind date with a very handsome young man.
Hopefully to impress him, I put on my new leather vest. Shortly after arriving at the UT game, I realized that the vest was not a good choice. I began to sweat profusely in the 100-degree heat.
Even worse, the vest must not have been properly cured and it began to rub off all over me and my date. Right after the game, he took me back to my dorm. I never saw him again.
” Twist in the wind “There was once a chick that I had been friends with for a while, and we expressed mutual feelings for each other, but the biggest factor at the time was distance. Well long story short, a new job brought me back to the Austin area, and we lived pretty close to each other. We had gone out to eat a couple of times and hung out, but.