Holy Smokes, Zero... I can't imagine being in a situation where someone's parent encouraged me to make out with their child!! I wouldn't have felt comfortable at all, but that's just me... I'm just glad to hear you survived.
I have one other date story I'd like to share--some of you may have read this already, so I'm sorry if I'm sounding redundant to anyone.
When I was about 17, I worked with a guy (at a Mickey D's, no less) and we always had a lot of fun talking and working together, so I asked him to my first prom. The thing of it was, he was also spending time with our bosses at the time (they were best friends and one kind of liked him, but they were in their 30's and he was 19.) I had talked to him about it BEFORE I ever asked him to my prom and he said it was just a friend thing, that he had no interest in dating our boss, and that people who were older than him usually liked hanging out with him so to him, it was just spending time with friends.
We both kind of mutually decided we should spend some time together before going to a big event like a prom, so we set up the typical dinner-and-a-movie appointment a few weeks before. He was having car problems, so he borrowed his parent's car to pick me up, but unfortunately, their car had even more problems than his.
It was raining cats and dogs that day, and his parent's car was an almost completely rusted-out Chevette, which wouldn't have been a problem... except that as we were driving down the highway, a HUGE wave of water shot up from a hole in the floor of the car, sidestepping the floormat and exploding all over him while he was driving. We're not talking a gentle spray of water here--it was an all-out GEYSER.
I felt SO bad for him--he had to be SO embarrassed... I was like, "OH!!! Are you ok?" I think he tried to laugh it off but I knew he must have felt terrible. We didn't have any towels or anything so he had no way of drying off... just kind of trying to shake off the water... I just tried to make some sort of small talk to hopefully lighten the situation.
So besides my poor date nearly being drowned in the car, it was a pretty good time, and something must have been right--we were together 4 years (he went to my first and second proms with me

) and were engaged for a short time (actually, he talked about getting engaged within the first month that we dated... I was a little shocked at the time, but this was my first "real" relationship), but that's another story (actually, several stories!!) for another time.