he lied about knowing how to drive on the first date
TLDR; I come with guy to pick up a truck he's buying, only to find out he's basically never driven before and doesn't have his license and I'm forced to drive his uninsured and unregistered truck 12 miles back to his house. This is our first date.
Apologies in advance for how long this post will be.
This guy was a friend of a friend (of a friend) that I had met two times previously. I thought he was cute, and shortly after the last time we hung out in a group setting he messaged me asking to take me out on a date.
We agreed to get dinner and then go to the park, but he mentioned that at around 7PM he was picking up a truck to buy and that I could come if I wanted. I didn't mind, so I drive 45 minutes to meet him at his place beforehand, only to be immediately disappointed that he's wearing sweatpants and a wrinkled T-shirt to see me. He also smelled sweaty when we hugged lol. For context, I had dressed up and done my makeup/hair.
His roommate was going to drive us to the truck pick-up spot, so we're talking while waiting for his roommate when he tells me he doesn't actually have his license? I'm dumbfounded and asked him how he had planned to drive this truck back home if I wasn't here, since it would've been illegal to drive without a licensed driver in the car. He assured me that he had planned to drive it home himself, but it's fine since he's going to take his driver's test tomorrow and that he had already passed his written exam, etc. I was like, okay, whatever, he's taking his driving test soon so he's probably a pretty okay driver who knows how to handle himself on the road.
We get to the truck pick-up spot (some dude's house), and he gets the truck before his roommate leaves. (The drive there was over 10 miles from his house by the way, which took around 20 minutes on the freeway or 40 minutes locally.) He starts acting nervous and saying that he thinks I should drive the truck, but I'm assuring him that he should try driving it since it's his car that he's apparently going to use on his driving test tomorrow. I also learned that he doesn't have car insurance.
We get in the truck and he immediately starts struggling, with the truck jerking back and forth as he tries to drive. I ask him what's wrong, and he confusedly says that the car is moving on its own. I look over and I see he's in Drive. He didn't know that when you're in Drive..... you have to brake for the car not to move forward....... 🤦
He proceeds to drive down the street extremely clumsily before giving up less than 500 feet away and says that we have to switch and that I should drive. I'm again, FLABBERGASTED, that if I was not here, this man had the audacity to have planned to drive this truck ON THE FREEWAY back home by himself, uninsured, unlicensed, unregistered, and having 0 driving skills whatsoever. So now I'm risking myself and my license having to drive his uninsured car back to his house before we go to dinner. When we get back, he changes into slightly more presentable jeans before I tell him that he should try driving the car to the restaurant, mostly because I didn't want to drive it anymore. It's only a 4 minute drive, so he hesitantly agreed.
I then have to show him where the blinker is, which he called the "left right thing". He also accidentally hits the gas for a second before I put my seatbelt on, jolting me forward and making me almost go face-first into the windshield.
Once he starts driving, he then has the audacity to say "this driving shit is easy!" AS he turns left from the wrong lane. In this 4 minute drive he somehow also veers out of the lane a few times. We turn into the restaurant's parking lot, and he completely ignores my instructions and attempts to park on his own completely crooked in what he thought was a parking spot (it was not a spot). I genuinely wanted to teach him how to correct his parking, so I encourage him and give him instructions on how to reverse out and try again, before he gives up and makes me switch and park the truck for him.
He then tries to convince me to watch a movie and stay the night with him on his bed-frameless mattress sitting on the floor.
Safe to say I never want to see him again. It was more than the incompetence, it was the confidence he had WHILE being completely and utterly incompetent. Bro wasn't even embarrassed that he was being such an idiot and a bum lol
Also, this was my first date with a man. I'm pansexual and in the past have mostly experience with women and NBs. This unfortunately was not a great first impression lol
Posted Sep 1, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC