Waiters and waitresses share the most awkward dates they have witnessed on Reddit

From a whole new meaning to ‘double date’ to ‘nightmare’ teenage dates and life-changing arguments

Waiters and waitresses share the most awkward dates they have ever witnessed (Getty)

Restaurant service staff have started posting the most awkward dates they have ever witnessed during their times as waiters and waitresses.

In a thread on Reddit that has over 3,000 comments, the stories range from bizarre ‘nightmare’ teenage dates to life-changing arguments to frightening situations.

One Reddit user wrote about a regular patron at his bar who complained his date was an hour late. Everything seems fairly normal until one of the waitresses comes up to him to ask if the man’s date was actually on a date with him.

“She told me that the woman had just left her [the waitress’] section and had been on a date with another man,” he wrote, observing it was a whole new meaning to ‘double date’.

Another waiter wrote about a failed proposal where the man in the relationship planned an elaborate way to propose to his girlfriend, with cake and a sparkler candle. But, the girlfriend rejected him.

“Then three of their friends show up and sit at the table, all excited thinking their friends just got engaged,” they continued. “But it quickly became apparent to them that it was not the case. It’s very quiet and awkward at the table.”

One waiter wrote about a rather unexpected teenage date that ended in disaster. A young couple in their teens were having a tense night out – with their parents, who were meeting each other for the first time.

“At some point in the night the daughter decides she’s comfortable with jokingly calling her boyfriend a ‘dumb jock’,” they write.

This turns out to be a huge mistake: “Immediately after the words left her mouth, the boyfriend’s mother loses her shit completely and starts driving into the girl, cussing her out, calling her a w***e, a s**t, and pretty much every single awful thing you can possibly say to a teenage girl.

“And, wouldn’t you know it, as soon as they left, the boy and the father turned on the mother and released a near identical stream of vitriol on her,” they continued. “It was so bad I wouldn’t be surprised if they got a divorce.”

Another very botched proposal was seen by a bartender on Valentine’s Day: “After finishing their [aperitifs], the guy drops on one knee, and pulls out a ring. Girl immediately shuts him down.

“He didn’t so much as get a word out, before she’s saying, ‘Nope. Nope. Nope.’ Grabs her coat off the back of her chair, and is putting it on, still saying ‘Nope’ over and over.

“Practically RUNS out of the place, does not look back. He looks gutted.”

A particularly frightening double date was witnessed by a hostess at Bennigans when she was 16 years old. She wrote that one of the ladies in the couples seemed quite shy, but started to come out of her shell when the meal started.

“She says something and nudges her date in the ribs a bit chuckling,” she wrote.

But things take a turn for the worst: “Everyone is smiling for a brief moment before her date turns red in the face, stands up, backhands her out of the booth, and starts dragging her out of the restaurant by her hair while screaming curses at her.

“She’s crying and begging for him to let go, apologising the whole way.”

She described how the restaurant seems to freeze, then spring into action. She rang the police as the man “throws his date into his SUV” and the other couple hurriedly get in, and they drive off “nearly running over a server”.

The hostess does not know what became of the woman, and hopes she “got away from him”.