to put potential partners off.

I'll start:

Plucked up the courage to ask a girl to go to the end of year ball with me in the first year at university.

The next time I saw her, in the bar, I looked up and said: 'Hello....DATE!'

She ended up going to the ball without me. Don't worry though, it had a good ending: I finished the night dancing to super sharp shooter with Datch on my shoulders.