memorable first dates

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i was talking with a girlfriend today about first dates. we swapped a few stories and that little conversation is what inspired this thread. thanks dear ellisa!


what was memorable about a first date you had?

oh, and to clarify, if you are opposed to the concept of "dating", that's fine. this isn't a thread to debate courting vs. dating, since in my book they're practically synonymous. please substitute the acceptable terminology for the word "date".

was it a great date? was it awful? was it even a date?

oh, and if you have a memorable date experience, share it. even if it wasn't a first date. : )


 
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It's not really 1st dates I have the problem with.
It's the LAST dates that are the killers.

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Never been on my first date. It will be in august for a wedding though so yay kinda excited about that.
 
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ww_21 said:
Never been on my first date. It will be in august for a wedding though so yay kinda excited about that.
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hopefully, you're not having your first date on your wedding day. : )

eeeek. talk about third world problems...
 
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Every first date is memorable. At least in my world, lol. I have to confess I'm very addicted to the whole "Who is this beautiful creature sitting across from me" aspect of first dates where you don't yet know much about whom your with. Can't say I've ever had a true flop, sure they don't work out and develop into anything significant a lot of times but I always enjoy myself.
 
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The serious part: For me I don't know if there will ever be such a thing as a first date. I've always found it easy to be friends with guys. I have no problem going to do something date-like with one of those friends (see a movie, grab a casual dinner, get together for a game night, etc) but I don't consider that a date, just hanging out with a friend who shares a mutual interest. On the flip side, I would never consider dating someone who wasn't a good friend already so if the relationship ever moved from friendship to dating it's not like I'd expect something super special for the first time we hung out in the "dating" phase.

The funny part: When I was in college, a friend was supposed to come over for dinner one night, but he called and cancelled because a bunch of his friends were going to see the movie Luther and he really wanted to see it too. I will forever remember him as the guy who stood me up for Martin Luther (though in fairness to him he did ask me if I wanted to come see the movie with all of them and I declined).
 
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I am fond of raisins! dates give me gas.
 
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This is a story from another thread and this really happened and it's like one of the first posts I ever made here....

....there was this one girl, one date, and I picked her up at her place and she took a hold of my arm on the way out which I thought was kind of endearing. But then she wouldn't let it go! The whole night! She held my arm all night, I'm not exaggerating. I was dying! We went to see a movie and I'd try to get my wallet out with one arm? We'd have to sit down at the same time! I'd get her in the car and it was like such a relief for those few precious seconds of freedom that I'd walk around the car and then as soon as I got in she'd be back on it like a leech. She'd hold it in the same place too - like her hand would be right where it was before. It was getting sweaty. It was horrible. I'm usually pretty lighthearted but I couldn't talk to her at all! She was too close. Her face was like right there all night. I could just slightly turn and there was her face and her breath and her hands around my arm and I was just real glad to see that one end. :0


So you can see why I'm so well loved here at CC starting off the way I did.
 
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Donkeyfish07 said:
Every first date is memorable. At least in my world, lol. I have to confess I'm very addicted to the whole "Who is this beautiful creature sitting across from me" aspect of first dates where you don't yet know much about whom your with. Can't say I've ever had a true flop, sure they don't work out and develop into anything significant a lot of times but I always enjoy myself.
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Is that what runs through your mind? Here I am, wondering how to over throw and conquer the man in front of me, while I think of all the booty and goods I can plunder from him after he suffers his inevitable defeat. Man, I must be on a completely different wave length. No wonder why dating never works for me. :p
 
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a couple memorable dates:

+ we spent a couple hours at an arcade laughing and goofing like a couple teenagers. it was SO fun. i would've never expected it to be so fun, but yeah, that was a very fun time. i laughed so hard my stomach hurt. i love dates like that.

we walked a couple blocks to a restaurant around the corner and some car came around from his side while we were starting to cross the street and he very quickly and instinctively put his arm up so that i wouldn't walk any further. it was very much an honest, yet adorable thing.

and i vaguely remember ordering some burger for dinner and barely finishing half. after i stopped eating, he eyed it a few times. i asked, "do you want it?" and without answering, he polished it off in like, three bites.

the whole night was fun, odd and different than most of the dates i've been on. in the very best of ways. that was my first date with a guy i dated for a few months several years ago.

+ however, one of more memorable first dates i had was when i was in college. i knew this guy liked me, but he would never ever ask me out. it was odd, but, whatever.

so his roommate conveniently invited us both on a double date with his girlfriend. we ended up going to hike together. after a bit of a hike the other couple left, (there was a polite excuse, but i figured it was all a ruse anyway). we had brought a picnic lunch and were starting to eat when i saw him getting up.

i asked him what was up, and he said, "oh, i've been stung by a bee".

"oh, i'm sorry to hear that. are you ok?" "sure", he says.

all of a sudden i see him start to turn a bit white and he is acting weird. i asked him again, "are you really ok?" and he insisted he was.

another couple minutes, and i said, "what's up?".

"well, i'm allergic to bees."
"do you have one of those epi pens?"
"at home"
"oh, shouldn't i be taking you to the hospital?"
"uh, probably. yeah, i mean, if that's ok with you. or you could just drop me off at the ER. if it's not too much trouble."

i spent the next 2 and a half hours in the hospital waiting for him. he must've apologized to me 100 times.

and then he seemed to disappear into thin air after that date. i very seldom saw him on campus again after that.

it was kind of weird, but i know he was embarrassed. the sad thing is, i had a pretty good time with him, in spite of things. dumb boys.
 
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I am one of those "don't do the dating thing" but my "friends first" approach is still similar enough to dating so here is my favorite...

Christine was a dear friend at the time and we loved one another's company. We would go to the beach on Lake Erie at this private marina at night and just lay on the beach and look up into the stars, listen to the sound of the waves hitting the shore, and just talk til it was time time to go home. After a number of times doing this, we would still talk but were so comfortable we would just enjoy silence while listening to the waves. One time I found myself a bit confused as I woke up to the sun, the waves, and Christine curled up to me with her head on my chest (yes, I like cudding... commence with the laughing). I just lay there for a moment taking it all in when it dawned (pun intended) on me that we HAD FALLEN ASLEEP BY ACCIDENT! I could tell she was as stunned as I was after I gently nudged her awake. We then had to scramble to the car and thankfully neither of us were late for work. LOL
It was really nice because it was then that we realized how comfortable we had grown with one another and how much we enjoyed one another's companionship. We were later engaged but that leads to a sad story so I will stop there. lol
To this day it reminds me of that song, "Wake up little Suzy... wake up."
 
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Arlene89 said:
Is that what runs through your mind? Here I am, wondering how to over throw and conquer the man in front of me, while I think of all the booty and goods I can plunder from him after he suffers his inevitable defeat. Man, I must be on a completely different wave length. No wonder why dating never works for me. :p
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Yep, ladies fascinate me what can I say? And different wavelengths are good. I can sit there and admire you knowing that you are secretly plotting mutiny, and still have a great time :p.
 
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just_monicat said:

"well, i'm allergic to bees."
"do you have one of those epi pens?"
"at home"
"oh, shouldn't i be taking you to the hospital?"
"uh, probably. yeah, i mean, if that's ok with you. or you could just drop me off at the ER. if it's not too much trouble."
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This is so adorable... This hiking-date guy should go out with the girl from Liam's hiking-date story who had "something terrible" happen while trying to pee in the woods. Hahahaaa... Those two, a nice long hike... it would be true love forever. :eek:

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I took a girl hiking one time, she talked about how her father used to take her camping, so I was optimistic. We found a cool lake, some Carrots, berries, etc. THEN she had to pee, but she had never peed outside before. She was hoping there was going to be an outhouse or something I guess. We were more than a few leagues from the nearest facilities, but after suffering for about an hour, she wants to try.

So I scouted a very appropriate looking log, explained the 3 seashells, and marched about 50 yards away so she could do her thing. After about 30 minutes she comes out of the woods, wearing the shorts that she packed in her bag, crying. Apparently something terrible happened and her dad wanted to kill me when we I dropped her off.
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Yep... I'm definitely 'shipping these two. :cool:
 
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OK - I'll play. The first couple posts in here was monica teasing me about my "sordid history."

Since my divorce, my "first date" experiences have been:

1. getting my ear nibbled on, which was both unexpected and unwelcome.

2. getting proposed to. In her defense, she was a friend before dating, so it's not like she just proposed to a near-stranger. On a subsequent date, she proposed again. I made her get on her knees and do it right. Then I said no again.

3. a gal who treated the ice cream counter girl like crap. Big red flag.





someday I hope to go on a date with a normal gal
 
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I once went on a date with this guy who took me to the drive-ins in his four wheel drive. He reversed in to the car space and open the back door latch, revealing a mattress and pillows he had prepared. As we jumped in the back, he smoothly pulled out the two bottles of wine, asking which one I'd prefer. It would have been cute, if it wasn't apparent that he was a little boy with raging hormones.

I also went on a date with a man that claimed to be a certain age, it was very apparent he was much older, and he turned up to my front door 45 minutes late... and drunk. Instead of going out to where he had planned for us to go for the evening, he took me straight to his place so he could shower first, sober up and change out of his work uniform. Then we went to some pub so he could have more beers and share some nachos, which wasn't where we had first intended to go. (I was literally fearing for my life that night)

I went on another first date with a man who was so nervous, he took the whole day off work and did a phenomenal amount of laps in the pool prior to the date. He was such a gentle man, though.

Then I got saved, lol.

The best dates have either involved running around and exploring a beach scenery or having fun at the arcade. I love going to arcades in particular because I love beating people at air hockey, time crisis, Street Fighter, the basket ball hoop game and so on and so forth. I love it when guys feel comfortable enough to get competitive with me and don't hold back.
 
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