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" Holy WOW. Today, a Smitten reader shares her harrowing tale of a bookstore pick-up&amp;amp;#133;and a dine-and-dash drop-off, if you will.Here is her story: One night after work I went to Borders. As I turned into the relationship self-help aisle (ha) I ran into a cute guy. We joked about the romantic comedy-ish setting of our run-in and, pretty soon, we were sitting on the floor between stacks of books, trading stories about our jobs and where we grew up and life in New York City. Hours later, the store manager announced it was closing time. As we walked out together, he asked for my number. Then&amp;amp;#8212;feeling brave from our hours of flirting, and totally thinking, This will make such a cute story at our wedding!!!&amp;amp;#8212;I asked if he wanted to grab dinner. We ordered food and drinks. We talked, we ate. Then he went outside to smoke a cigarette&amp;amp;#8212;and NEVER CAME BACK!!! I walked outside and paced the sidewalk (no sign of him) then called his phone (it rang and went to voicemail). I&amp;#x27;d been ditched! To be fair, our dinner conversation had become increasingly awkward. He started talking about sex and asking me questions like, &amp;amp;#8220;What&amp;#x27;s your favorite position?&amp;amp;#8221; It made me super-uncomfortable, and when he tried to slide into my side of booth, I was like, &amp;amp;#8220;Um, no.&amp;amp;#8221; So I think he split when it became obvious that I wasn&amp;#x27;t interested in a random hook-up. But still! Who gets left at a restaurant?!! It made me feel stupid and embarrassed and uncool, no matter that I&amp;#x27;d already decided he was weird. AND I had to pay our entire bill! He was creepy AND a jerk! Now, I feel like the whole thing is hilarious and kind of awesome&amp;amp;#8212;the ultimate bad date story! And I seriously think he might trawl the self-help aisle to pick up girls. Consider yourself warned. Can you imagine being left at a restaurant&amp;amp;#8212;and getting stuck with the bill? And how creepy is it to prey on vulnerable girls reading self-help? And then to talk about sex like that on the first date? Have you ever had any of this happen to you? P.S. Would you like to share your hilarious Dating FAIL story? Feel free to submit it here! More Ways to Get Glamour Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage. FREE Beauty Stuff! Enter for your Chance to Win a New Prize Every Day! Photo: Paul Bradbury/OJO Images (RF) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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