By Community Correspondent Rosie Saxe: So it’s 7.30pm, I’m standing in the kitchen applying the last few strokes of mascara and lippy to my nervous face. Having spent far too long getting ready, my phone beeps. Excited, as I’m about to leave the house for my big first date, I flip open my phone to read, ‘Just got home from work, my dog’s head is like a football, going to take him to the vet, so sorry.’ My heart sinks, my jaw drops as I realise that all the time I’d spent wondering whether my clutch bag went with my shoes was a total waste of time!

So, here I am once again contemplating what could possibly have gone wrong? I left a couple of kisses after each text to show I was keen but not overly, I’d left it at least half an hour between texts to show I was hard to get and to make sure he didn’t actually realise that I was frequently checking my inbox to see if he had messaged me every two minutes and finally I had refrained from using text language, ‘cnt w8 2 c u’ so that he didn’t think I had the intellect of a twelve year old. After all this I just didn’t understand he reasoning, which brings me to question have you ever had any unusual dating experiences? If so, please comment on my article and together we can only try to understand dating disasters and faux pas!