“The first date I ever had I got too excited and started jumping,” wrote one contributor.

“I fell, twisted my ankle, and he carried me to ER to get an x-ray.” Ouch.

We salute these plucky daters for putting their hearts, limbs and non-existent allergies on the line for the sake of a snog. After all, the true course of love never did run smooth.

Here are the five worst tales of woe from the Whisper list of dating disasters:

1.   My first date with this guy he drove his car into a phone pole when he wasn’t paying attention. We spent the night in ER – I got injured, not him, and his family blamed me for everything.
2.   He had to take me to the ER because I went to his apartment not knowing he had cats. I’m deathly allergic.
3.   The guy showed up to our first date, barfed and had to be taken to hospital for alcohol poisoning. I sat in the front seat of the ambulance. No second date.
4.   My ex-wife pushed her arm through a glass door on our first date. Spending the night at a hospital and explaining to her dad why she was all cut up wasn’t very fun.
5.   We ended up in ER because he was allergic to my lipstick. I learned to stick with lipgloss after that.

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People are sharing nightmare first-date stories that ended up in A&E