Date Mistakes: What Men Should Avoid Saying

Not every date goes well. The reasons can be different, but quite often everything comes down to the fact that you are simply not having fun. While you are bored and can’t wait for the meeting to end, he talks and talks. And about things that don’t interest you at all. Which topics are among the most boring, despite how funny some men think they are?

Many men have a more than positive attitude towards anything that drives: cars, motorbikes and anything that has at least two wheels and can be shown off on the road. In certain circumstances it is also sexy, but it must not be overdone. “I had a date with a man who first gave me a lift motorcycle. That was fun, I enjoyed it. But then we had dinner and he kept talking about his motorcycle. I didn’t learn anything about him, but his machine was presented to me in absolute detail – including mileage, power, maximum speed, fuel consumption, the price he bought it for, the repairs it has had. After about half an hour, I simply stopped perceiving him,” says 28-year-old Klára.

The man with whom 30-year-old Katka went out was enthusiastic about his friends. “The whole evening to me he told about his friends and their girlfriends and everything he experienced with them. He told me all the funny incidents of the last ten years or so where his friends were involved. But it was only fun for him because he knew them. He tried to make it better by describing all of them to me, whether they were fat, thin, etc., but he simply talked about people I had never seen in my life, I have no relationship with them, and I didn’t enjoy it,” recalls Katka. It turned out that she couldn’t wait for the end of the meeting and refused the next one.

When you go on a date with someone, you want to know something about them. However – too much information is not the best and will completely discourage self-absorption. “Once I was on a date with a guy who he only talked about himself the whole time. What is he like, what are his character traits, how is he doing at work, how much money does he make, when will he be promoted, what has he traveled and the like. He didn’t ask me anything, as if I was absolutely not interested in him,” describes 29-year-old Míša. After about half an hour, she felt like a ghost: “I don’t even know if he registered me. Honestly, it quite offended me, I would have expected him to be interested in what I’m like, what I like and don’t like.”

Linda is an active athlete, so she was excited to go on a date with a football player. She thought that sports could bring them together. But she was wrong. “For the first hour, it was still bearable. He described how he got into football, how he almost quit due to injury and so on. Those were things that said a lot about him, so I was interested.”

But they stayed with football even after that. And that was it maddeningly boring. “He talked about corruption in football, which referee should quit, which team is going downhill and which one looks promising, he discussed the prices at which the world’s clubs buy players. Just just football, football and football,” says Linda, adding that this date did not go well.