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The First Date Thread

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Colossus
Member

10-04-2003

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK, I read GAL's "Worst Date" story a long time ago (before we started dating seriously). It outlined the parameters of how I was to court her. She tells me there was a "Best Date" thread, also. So now, I want to hear about first dates. Simple and innocent as they could be, these are the best memories.

My First Date . . .

was with Arlene. I was eight years old at the time, and she was ONE GRADE ABOVE ME. Being an older woman, I was infatuated with her - and she lived right across the street! Arlene was literally the Playboy girl next door at age nine. Polite, pleasant and fun - and cute as a button.

Well, I conspired to set up a Kool-Aid stand on the front steps of my house to get her attention, then went across the street to invite Arlene to help. She spent the afternoon with me selling Kool-Aid to anyone who walked by. At some point, I worked up the nerve to ask to walk her to school, and she said "yes." See, to me this was my first realization of attraction to somebody outside my family, and Arlene was the focus of my imagination. I wanted to be the gentleman and dazzle her with my masculine charms. Now, let me say that I've always been a bit of a dreamer, and I can get distracted fairly easily. Next day, I was literally so entranced with the idea of walking her to school that I FORGOT TO PUT MY SHOES ON. I went to Arlene's door in my slippers, picked her up, walked her to school, sat down at my desk, Then realized for the first time that I had no shoes on - only my slippers. My teacher was so evil she wouldn't let me put my gym shoes on and made me wear slippers for the rest of the day. And I was so attracted to Arlene that I didn't care that I didn't have shoes on at the end of the day, I walked her home again in my slippers. If Arlene noticed I didn't have shoes on, she never said a word. Godluv'er. My first date, and she was a sweetheart.

Postscript: Arlene moved away shortly after and I was TRAUMATIZED. But Arlene laid the groundwork for another half-dozen girls or so who lived around my block - I turned into the grade-school Cassanova of 63rd street. And I owe it all to Arlene, who was too sweet to notice.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 9:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have absolutely no recollection of my first date. High school is all just a blur for me (I wasn't allowed to even THINK about dating until I was 16, and by then I was so busy working and being involved in school activities that dating wasn't a priority). I do remember that I went to prom with an old friend from grade school who was pretty hot, and it was a big deal for me because I was going through the teenage fat and ugly thing something harsh. But anyway, I'm posting to say I have no first date story before Colossus comes in here and makes one up for me. LOL.

Mware
Member

09-14-2001

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just tell him that he was your first date, GAL. He'll be so busy laughing that he won't be able to write.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SSShhhhhhh!! Sh! Sh!! Mware, he thinks he really is!!! Whattaya tryin' to start a fight?

Capecodkathy
Member

01-23-2004

Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How about my first blind date?
I was supposed to be in by midnight, I returned a little before 3AM.. my mother was sitting on the sofa reading a church program.. she was not at all pleased with me.. or the guy. This was in Oct of 1970.
(BTW, this past January, we celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary!)

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 6:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm thinking my first and only blind date was my "Worst Date." Or maybe the Worst Date was just so horrifying it's knocked the others off the radar screen of my memory.

Bigd
Member

09-13-2001

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What I am going to "call" my first date was with Mike (not my Mike:-), but my first Mike), anyway, we were both 15 and we went to the sweetheart banquet at out church. Although he AND his parents picked me up and took me home, I am counting this as a first date since it is such a great memory.

If you count first date as being picked up in a car with only the boy, it would have to be ANOTHER Mike :-). A big burly football player who I was absolutely crazy over and was ecstatic when he finally took me out on a "single" as opposed to "double" date(I was 17). Well he took me to a nice restaurant for dinner, then to the school dance, and then "parking" on (no kidding) Dark Street (the local hot spot for parking - sometimes you had to wait in line to get a spot). Anyway he kissed me, but then he put his tongue in my ear and the date was over! I never went out with him again!

I clearly see now that I have always had a "thing" for Mike's - I'm married to one:-)

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Monday, April 05, 2004 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My first date was Charlie. We were living in New Mexico at the time, and his sister was my best friend. We were in the sixth grade. We would often go to the movies on Saturday as a "gang". His brother, his sister, my sister, my brother, and the two of us. One set of parents would bring us and the other set would come and fetch us. (That was in the days of station wagons and before seat belt laws).

It was Valentines day earlier that week. He gave me a small heart shaped box of chocolates and asked if I would sit with him at the movies that week. It started out like any other Saturday movie day until we got to the window to buy our tickets. He stepped in front of me and paid for my ticket with his own money that he had earned being a caddy at the gold course. Then he bought me some popcorn and a coke.

When we went to be seated. Our sisters and brothers arranged it so that we were seated in the middle of the group next to each other...we held hands. (It was so sweet and so magical).

We had several more movie dates just like that one. At the end of the school year we moved back to Michigan and that was the last I ever saw of him. (My first broken heart).

Rache
Member

05-20-2004

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary, that is about the sweetest thing I have ever heard. Whoever married that one, got a keeper.