Phil: sorry this is a late response to what i saw in an earlier page, but as to your pipi costume as people were talking about, i dressed up as pilsbury doh boy, little john (used a spray can to get a black tan to look the part, but it was orange, so i was an orange little john), and as the koolaid man........so yes...i think i take the cake on embarassing costumes unless u went all out on ur costume, in that end....yeah... anywho, as to this topic, worst date ever....hmm....i think the worst date i had would have to have been when me and this blind date i was on were walking into the movies, and she just would not stop doing this really akward habit of yelling out swear words randomly (this was of course before i knew anything about toret syndrome heh), that pretty much got everyone to look at our row every 5 minutes. that and it was combined with her asking me to affirm i liked her following each one of those swear words as assurances now im a quirky, sarcastically funny, and as most people call me, a nice guy, so i didn't let this bother me really, but, it was really...akward lol... yeah i know its worlds worst dates, but i'de say this is probably my most awkwardess.... date... hehe luckily didn't really have any horrible dates as for the debate i saw earlier in this thread about needing to "owe the man" something if they pay for everything. Me, i come from the old school kind of thinking, i like to pay for things, i hate it when others pay for me, as it makes me feel less like "the man" i suppose. Now luckily ive taken alot of psychology, so i can look back and laugh at myself for all my quirks these days, im fine with whatever, and whoever pays, or if we go dutch, im usually fine with anything. I could care less what other people think about "man ur the man, u should always pay, ur not a man if u dont". but whether i do, or do not pay, i never do it with any kind of alterior motive, i do it without thinking really, since when im on a date, my alterior motive if you want to call it that, is to get to know the other person, and make sure she has fun, and whatever happens, happens!