When I was in college, my junior year I remember my roommate talking with me and saying , 'We should go to the 'Green With Envy' dance.' This was a dance where your roommate sets you up with a girl to go eat somewhere fancy--or, deviled ham is what my date got. And crackers. Hey, it was spicy flavor. I was a cheapskate so
, OK, just kidding, I took her to a nice Greek restaurant-- and then congregate with rest of the going-outers at the dance. So......let's back up, and, sorry, I am a long storyteller. Absolutely positive it's the green in me
I said, 'Ok, let's do it.'
We then gave our lists of who would be cool if we could go 'green' with them.
I went to my roommates first choice and she said 'no,' someone already had asked her.
So, I went to his 2nd choice and, bingo!, he was set up.
Now, we started asking girls about a week and a half ahead of time to improve our chances occasion girl we liked not yet asked to the dance.
Anyhoo, my roommate and I would congregate nightly and hash things out .
There wasn't't much 'hashing' for him, since his 2nd choice said 'I do,' I mean, 'yes.'
But, me? I kept asking him , questions like, 'did you get her? What about her. Or, her.'
My rooommate kept saying, 'Yeah, I'm doing good, I am working on it. I'll.have someone for you to go with.'
So, the dance night rolled around and, sure enough, a girl I knew was who I was told I was going with.
I got her a corsage that night and I dressed up fancy and we ate fancy food with my rooommate and hisand. date and then went dancing.
So, finally, the night was over and it went well, I wasn't't but really attracted to my date, so, nothing extraordinary of us, but she was a nice girl and so night ended. That night I was back with my roommate in the dorm and he told me something I will never forget...
'Ed, you are not going to believe this. But your going on this dance almost never happened. I went down your list and no one would say 'yes' of them ((I listed 5 or 6 girls). I asked out 12 girls and I was just about to give up but then God answered prayer. One of the girls you liked called me and said her roommate would go with you.'