The dating world can be brutal. It doesn't help when the person you might otherwise be interested in happens to have one big "ick" that you just can't separate them from in your mind.
A while back, Reddit user u/High_Sleep3694 asked, "What was the pettiest reason you refused to date someone?"
Here are some of the ~ickiest~ responses:
1. "She was a volunteer at the zoo, and when kids asked her questions she didn’t know the answer to, she would make something up and lie."
2. "He stared at me blankly when I said the word 'Republican' when describing one of my family members. I followed up, and sure enough, he literally had no idea what the word meant and didn't know about our largely two-party system."
3. "She kept using the chick emoji when she texted and said 'hewwo' instead of hello."
4. "My new car kept scraping on the bottom while I was pulling out of their steep driveway to the main road."
5. "A very attractive, fun, smart woman asked me if I wanted to go get ice cream with her. I turned her down, but she kept asking. Finally I had to tell her I was turning her down because she had both my mother's first and last names."
6. "One day he said he liked watching commercials on TV, and that was that."
7. "She didn't know that foxes were real animals. She thought they were mythical and just in movies."
8. "I went out with someone who has the same name as my cat. I brought him back to my house, and the second I got home, I greeted my cat. The guy looked at me, and I knew right then and there that I couldn’t do this."
9. "He would call me his 'beautiful angle.' He really didn't know how to spell angel."
10. "A guy on a dating app said he wouldn’t date me because I didn’t like oysters."
11. "He wore a Bluetooth piece in his ear. The constant blue light blinking from the side of his head was too much for me."
12. "They walked with T. rex arms. Not while standing or sitting. Just walking."
13. "When I was in college, a girl wouldn't go on a second date with me because my dorm room was too clean."
14. "She thought every cup/mug held the same volume of liquid and burned her hand transferring a beverage that was clearly larger than the intended holder."
15. "Someone I worked with refused to date this very handsome, successful, and kind man because 'he has too many things in his pockets.'"
16. "He didn’t rerack his weights. I will never, for the life of me, understand why people don’t return their weights."
17. "They had the same first name as both my brother and father."
18. "They did that thing where they inflect their voice upward at the end of everything they say as if it were a question."
19. "His laugh was the weirdest-sounding laugh I’ve ever heard. The first time I heard it, I was like, 'Nope, can’t deal with that for the rest of my life.'"
20. "He said he'd do a full health check on any pets I had. I was pretty peeved at the implication that I might not be caring for them."
21. And finally: "He asked my roommate out on a date. They went out, and she said he spent the whole time asking about me."
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.