The worst date I ever had was with my partner, and it nearly killed our relationship before it began. At a party she'd thrown, I offered to stay behind after everyone else had gone home and help clean, a subtle...
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Thanks to everyone who submitted their true life stories to our Stranger Than Fiction challenges. The three winning stories are posted below. You can also check out other submissions that we've posted at random in our story archives.
- Challenge #1 winner (unusual childhood): Edgar Rudolph.
- Challenge #2 winner (bad behaviour): Jowita Bydlowska.
- Challenge #3 winner (dating disasters): Caitlin Galway.
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My first university year, computer dating was introduced. We latched to a scientific way of meeting our perfect match, and filled in questionnaires. Cards were notched and fed through a computer, which spit out a list of compatible dates. We...
If that hostess hadn't denied us a table that rainy night, perhaps the Valentine's Day disaster we remember vividly wouldn't have been so... disastrous. But, she insisted. So, we ended up in a dodgy part of town at a restaurant...
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