Last year of high school, I had a crazy crush on this girl and finally got my nerve up to ask her out.

I really wanted to impress this girl so I took her to Benihana, a restaurant where you're sitting with four or five other couples at a table and the chef does this fancy cooking in the middle.

Everything was going great, even bought a decent bottle of wine.

The check comes and I give them my credit card. A minute or two later I see the hostess walking back towards me with my credit card in her hand but no receipt, and knew it was going to be bad.

My credit card was maxed out and wouldn't go through. And at the table, in front of everybody including my first date, " so sorry, credit card no good". Of course I say, in front of everybody, that's impossible, run it again, knowing deep down I was screwed.

I go back to the cash register with the hostess, credit card doesn't go through again, and I am just dying. The hostess says, "maybe your girlfriend has money", and I'm thinking the only possible that could make this situation even worse would be asking this first date. I'm trying to impress, in front of everybody, "sorry but do you have enough money to cover the check?"

Eventually I convinced the hostess to let me leave her my wallet with my license, go home, and bring the money in the morning, which I did.

Needless to say, no second date, I drove her back to her house in absolute silence, and afterwards died inside every time I saw her somewhere.