First dates- Where did you go?

[LeftyMom]

On the occasion of my probably finally having something lined up with my favorite DU hottie, what was the last thing you did on a first date?

My last three first dates (and the last two were in high school- my social life is seriesly dull) were:

-a drive up to south lake tahoe for pizza

-Star Trek: First Contact

-a chick flick the guy picked out

You?

[mainegreen]

1. First date with my wife: Took her sailing of Portland in Casco bay.

Was a great pickup hook: "Would you like to go sailing tommorow?" Who could say no?
:rofl:

[taterguy]

2. Met in the park with our dogs

We met each other via an online dating site so that seemed like a sensible place to have our first real life meeting. The dogs got along great with each other and we lived happily ever after

[LostinVA]

4. OOOOH -- just like the Diane Lane-John Cusack movie!

[taterguy]

14. Never saw it

However, I did tell her that Rob from High Fidelity is one of my favorite fictional characters. Here's a pic of our dogs bonding

[LostinVA]

16. Watch "Must Have Dogs" -- that's exactly how they've met

[Manifestor_of_Light]

75. And

Jack Black's character from High Fidelity reminds me of all the hypercritical guys I dated in college, and after, before I knew any better!!!

[LostinVA]

3. What do you mean by "date"?

Haruka and I actually had online and phone dates until we could meet in person.

[LeftyMom]

5. I mean in person nt

[LostinVA]

10. Errrr....

Our first date? I'll just say we missed our dinner reservation and leave it at that.

[LeftyMom]

11. I'm not planning on counting that.

:D

[LostinVA]

15. Okay then

Then, even though it was informal, I'd say our first "date" was going out to dinner in NJ after we left Thom's.

However, let em tell you this, LM: I bet that you discover what we did: you already know each other so well that you've jumped over all of the superficial dating stuff, and find yourself in a great place on the other side of all of that.

[LeftyMom]

18. No doubt

How often does one get to skip all the weirdness and just do something cool with their best friend?

[LostinVA]

20. That's it exactly -- you understand

There is none of that type of weirdness.

And, trust me, you'll know IMMEDIATELY if your instincts and feelings were right -- those hundreds of hours of phone and IM conversations are a pretty good indicator.

[GOPisEvil]

68. I agree with these last two post wholeheartedly!

It's SO nice to just jump into a full-on relationship without all the awkwardness. Score one for meeting online. :)

[DixieBlue]

6. Well ...

-- To a haunted field at Halloween.

-- To a play.

-- To see a movie and a party afterward.

-- To see some funk band in a smokey, dark club.

[wildhorses]

7. my very first date in my life was to a football game

lame story i know

[AllegroRondo]

8. the zoo

then to lunch at White Castle.

[Rude Horner]

62. Ditto. The zoo n/t

[eyesroll]

9. Indian restaurant, coffee, martinis (real ones with gin)...um...breakfast. Oops.

We've been together for more than two years...

[Strawman]

12. Met up in Ann Arbor

went to an Irish pub
then for a walk
then bowling
then another bar in Ypsi to listen to a blues band
then to a hotel

We had dated before. That was our first date after not seeing one another for years. That's my last "first date" because a little over a year later we got married.

[InternalDialogue]

13. Years ago, one of my first dates almost ended in flames.

My date and I met for coffee, but got on so well we decided to get dinner that night. We walked a couple blocks to a pizza place. Everything went fine until I shifted the elevated pizza pedestal so the wax paper hanging off the pan was directly over the table candle. Poof!

We saved the pizza and laughed about it a lot, but she only saw me twice more before telling me she had decided to get serious with someone else.

:(

[WCGreen]

17. How many first dates....

Jesus, I had dozens...

But the best one just went with the flow...

Saw a movie walked over to the Pizza Parlor had some pepperoni Pizza and just talked...

[bridgit]

19. picnic on the delta, there's some cool little towns, shops, eats...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_River_Delta :thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

21. Go to a museum

Don't go to the movies. It's just 2+ hours of sitting there without talking. :P

[LeftyMom]

22. Oh, I'm not looking for advice on where to go, just asking others for fun

If the ticket fairy smiles on me tomorrow and his boss is cool with days off, we're going to see Rage Against the Machine.

[Burma Jones]

23. Let's see, it's been twelve years since my first date

My wife and I had our first date while she was still living with her then boyfriend, we spent Easter together going to the Kennedy Center to see/Hear the Bach B Minor Mass in the afternoon, followed by a stroll around the Jefferson Memorial and Tidal Basin resplendent in Cherry Blossoms, then dinner in Georgetown and then I took her back to her apartment. She later called her BF and told her that she had a wonderful day and, well, we ended up married a little more than two years after that.

[Left Is Write]

24. My first date with Mr. LIW: Are you ready for this? Seriously Hang on to your hats! We went to.....

THE OLIVE GARDEN!

(In our defense, the same weekend we went to Shelly's Woodroast in Golden Valley, a wonderful non-chain restaurant. Later, he proprosed there.)

[LeftyMom]

25. Soap opera organ: Dun Dun DUNNNNNN!!!!!

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

26. *THUD*

Where am I? Everything got faint for a moment...

[LeftyMom]

27. Perhaps you're dehydrated.

Here, have a Fresca.

[Left Is Write]

28. ....

:spray:

[LostinVA]

29. Hmmm... maybe I better

Haruka is on her way here, afterall.

*gulp*

[northzax]

30. brunch

it's a perfect option. you either have the whole day to spend together if it's good, or you have time left ot salvage your sunday.

[bertha katzenengel]

31. It was awesome: she took me to the Shubert to see "Ragtime"

It was my first musical, and I cried all the way through it -- it was so wonderful.

[ContraBass Black]

32. My Place.

:evilgrin:


Not really. We went for a long walk.

[liontamer]

33. book launch party/sushi dinner/walk/bar hopping

on edit, I feel I should mention this was all the same date.

[redqueen]

34. Last 3

my place
nice steak restaurant then my favorite live jazz club (bestest first date EVAR)
tgi fridays bleh

[av8rdave]

35. Two wives, two first dates

# 1. movie

#2. Jimmy Buffett concert

[Tikki]

36. To see a movie...."Good Neighbor Sam" and then....

to some friend's home.

The Tikkis

[Jamastiene]

37. A kickass Mexican restaurant.

Not Taco Bell, but the real thing. That's where I got my strong urge to eat tacos and other Mexican delicacies. Scrumptious. That was my first real official date, not the earlier attempts that were never called dates and not worth mentioning. It was a friend of mine who took me on my first official date just to show me what a real date was supposed to be. It's a long story, but I'll always remember this friend fondly for that. It was my first taste of some real dignity in this town.

[Beer Snob-50]

38. took my now wife to see the guy who sings...

"simply reisitable (sp)" i cannot think of his name right now. I know he's dead.

and then like a good catholic boy we sat in the car, held hands, and had pure thoughts.

[LeftyMom]

40. "held hands, and had pure thoughts"

What a coincidence, that's exactly what we have planned. :P

[Beer Snob-50]

41. very nice!!!

very proud of you.

[Pendrench]

43. Was it Robert Palmer? n/t

[HoneyBee]

47. Robert Palmer

Right?

[Beer Snob-50]

58. yes!

it was robert palmer. remember it as being a great show.

[HoneyBee]

59. I saw him when he was in the super-group "Power Station" eons ago...

John Taylor was soooooo hotttt!!

[AngryAmish]

39. There has to be liquor involved

No food. Most gals have issues with food so eating dinner is fraught with decisions they would rather not make on the first date.

Liquor lowers inhibitions and gets people talking. And no, I did not date non-drinkers because they are no fun.

Plus who wants to spring for someone's meal when you are just getting to know them? They may be climgy, crazy etc. and all those things are found out after a few drinks.

I made the most progress at quiet joints at off-peak hours. That way one does not have to shout to be heard (and my hearing is shot so I have trouble following conversations in loud places).

My dating time is over but that is my accumulated wisdom of too many years of dating.

My last first date: Saw Kurt Elling (sp?).

[swag]

42. We took acid, went to hear a band, went to the band's all night party

where pretty much everyone else was on acid, then went back to my dorm room and fucked.

It was a pretty good date.

[RetroLounge]

45. ...

:applause:

RL

[swag]

67. Yours sound quite good, hombre.

And much more recent than the one I posted about which was about 25 years ago.

[tigereye]

60. what, you didn't quote her any Yeats, or Keats

or read from your collected works?

I'm disillusioned. ;)



Hell, the husband and I drank a gallon of red wine, went to see The Harder They Come and then, well.... so I have nothing to point fingers about....


:rofl:

[swag]

69. I saved Yeats and Keats 'til she was asleep.

Besides, she already knew that truth was beauty, beauty was truth, etc.

And about "and then, well," what else are you going to do after the end of The Harder they Come. Love the ending to that movie. That's a real ending.

[Pendrench]

44. My (now) wife and I went to see a Elton John & Bill Joel concert.

Three months later, we were engaged. :)

Tim

[RetroLounge]

46. Hmmm, haven't had many first dates in the past 12 yrs.

3 to be exact.

1) Went to the beach and hung out.

2) Bookstore browsing, kissing in poetry section.

3) Hung out in at my place as our kids played together.

RL

[LaraMN]

48. First dates? Ugh.

Deserted baseball field.
Coffee shop.
Empty apartment (don't know whose it was).
Mary Reilly (baaad movie).
State park.
Coffee shop.
Concert
My house.
Someone's brother's house party.


Absolutely nothing remarkable or interesting.

:eyes:

[Broken_Hero]

49. My first date, with my wife

was at some crappy wanna be country bar out in the middle of no where. I was totally out of it, not that I was drunk/on drugs, I was literally tired. I was an RA for my Alma Mater, and the night before we had jackasses running around the dorm spraying fire extinguishers all over the place, so my coworker and I dealt with that crap for hours, and hours....This took place friday night, and leaked into saturday morning. By the time all of the madness was over it was 6am...I couldn't get to sleep, and I finally went down around 9:3oam.

The rub was...I was suppose to go to SW Missouri for my date at 10am...from KS, to SW Missouri is about a 3hr drive, and I left a message on my friends phone saying, I didn't want to go, just forget about it all....but, she didn't heed my call...she came to my dorm, got keys to my room and woke me up...so here I am...tired as can be...and I'm going to SW Missouri for a blind date of sorts....

Thats why I was so out of it at the bar, I could barely keep my eyes open, my wife at the time thought I was bored, and what not...and she thought I wasn't interested, and I was like, no its not you....if you gave me a pillow, I would fall asleep for two days to recover from friday. And it worked out, we got married about 13 months later....:D

[datasuspect]

50. got hammered at the bar in the basement of the former marshall field's on state street

then met her at around 7:00, got through half a meal at berghoff's, got even more thoroughly shitfaced, went barhopping, got disorderly, blacked out, came to puking off the el platform at damen/milwaukee (she lived in logan square). she was loaded and we made out on the train (puke breath and all).

woke up at her house with more money than i started, some blow, and a massive headache.

[swag]

72. You are the winner.

[Nicole]

51. First date was a Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings concert

Other first dates:

A Halloween hay ride to a haunted house. Yeah I lived in a rural area. :rofl:

Picnic while watching the sail boat regatta followed by a fireworks display.

Plus several of the Dinner & a Movie variety.

[Ekirh]

52. Let me see. .

My VERY first date every . . (And so far my only first date ever "sighs") I took her to see Save the Last Dance.. . then I tried to take her out to eat. . . but she said she had a big lunch.

Note though: She knew we were going out on a date. . I just thought it was a friendly outing to get her away from her overly protective mother . . . apparently half way through I thought "DAMN IT" it's a date.. then about near the end I was like "Hey, it's a date" then at the very end before she kissed me I was like "holy hell, this is a date" . . that lead to the kiss and my less than smooth "That never happened before"

[Mr. McD]

53. We took her kids and my kids to see

Gremlins at a drive in. That was 22 years ago.:)

[NewWaveChick1981]

54. My first first date was...

Western Sizzlin' for steaks, movie theatre for a movie, which we only got about 30 minutes into, and then back to his place. :evilgrin:

[Little Wing]

55. Dinner and a movie at Jose's Casa del Buttfucking

I had to fly us both out of the country for that one

[datasuspect]

57. that has to be the best post i've seen here since

well, since forever.

[HEyHEY]

56. Before or after she ravaged me?

- A play that my friend wrote and starred in
- Coffee
- Dinner and a movie

[sakabatou]

61. The park

[davsand]

63. We went to a Kurosawa film.

At least that was our first "official" date.



Before that, we spent one night hanging out with a mutual friend who introduced us to each other in a bar. He's the ONLY man I've ever met who has not only read Bukowski's poetry but also knew Stoppard's plays well enough to recognize a quote and reply with the next line.

Oh--and we drank a lot...



I married him a few years later.



Laura

[Dastard Stepchild]

64. Denny's!

Met there for our first date at 10pm. Didn't leave until 8am the next day.
Strawberry waffles and coffee all night.

Married the guy 3 years later! :)

[Shell Beau]

65. Well I was 15, so I think we went to the movies!

:shrug: Must have worked, still together after all these years!

[Ian David]

66. My worst first (blind) date ever: I took the girl to the Emergency Room...

...to visit her ex-boyfriend, who had just tried to kill himself after she broke-up with him.

And then, on the way to drive her home, we got a flat tire.

A short while later, a police car pulls along side us to see what we're doing parked in a church parking lot at two in the morning. The cop calls a tow truck for us (I didn't have a spare), and we were told they wouldn't be able to get to us for at least two more hours.

Meanwhile, the girl tells me she has pot with her... in my car... with a cop sitting next to us.

I don't know why, but the cop stayed there for HOURS.

The towtruck finally comes, and gets us to my house just as the sun was coming up.

I offer to wake-up my dad to get the girl home.

That's when she tells me that she snuck-out of the house without her parents' permission, and will need to climb in a window in the front of the house.

That wasn't something I wanted to explain to my dad, so I stole his car to bring her home.

I wasn't allowed to drive my dad's car, because I wasn't insured for it under his lease.

But stealing his car seemed better to me (at the time) than explaining about this strange looking girl who had to climb-in through her window.

So, I got her home without incident. Made it home myself-- again, without incident. I thought everything was going to be okay. But then...

As I walked in the door about 6 AM, my dad was awake, and he was REALLY mad.

I told him the whole story of what happened, leaving out ONLY three details:

1) The fact that she had pot.
2) The fact that she snuck out the window of her house.
3) The fact that I stole his car.

He didn't believe ANY of it! He thought I was making the whole thing up.

He just got MORE and MORE mad at me, and I started to get mad at him for not believing me, so I decided the only thing I could do was come COMPLETELY clean about EVERYTHING (except that she had pot)!

Including stealing his car!

"If I'm admitting to you that I stole your car, can you POSSIBLY imagine I have ANYTHING worse I could POSSIBLY be lying about?"

Well...

Finally!

He believed me!

But boy, I was in BIG trouble.

Worst.

First.

Date.

Ever.

[bmbmd]

70. Well-we went up to Saratoga

where my horse naturally won. Then, we flew my Lear jet to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun.

Really, though, we went to dinner at Peican's, then to tht movies to see "Star Wars"-the real one.

[thefool_wa]

71. Most memorable first dates

My wife and I went to the mall and then to the movies on our first date. This may not seem special but we were talking in the food court about relationships and I (in jest) asked her to marry me and kissed her for the first time. We then spent the next hour before the movie looking at crystal and china patterns (with no serious intentions of getting married).

I also once took a girl to a fireworks display then to my favorite pier here in Kitsap County which has a PHENOMENAL view of Downtown Seattle from across the Puget Sound. We sat on the pier talking and holding hands for a very long time. Total cost of date: ZERO and she said it was the best date she had gone on in the time she was here visiting her sister (she was from Kansas and I met her in the parking lot of a grocery store - I just walked up to her and said HI then we went out a week later). She left 5 days later and I never saw her again.

Sometimes the simplest first dates are the most memorable.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

73. lisa and i went to see bellydancing and have dinner.

[Beaverhausen]

74. A matinee (Quills!) and dinner

in fact, I didn't know it was a date. We had been friends for a few years but this was our first time out alone together. And we have now been together for 6 years.

(I'm so happy for you guys!!!)

[S n o w b a l l]

76. My house usually....

A fire, nice dinner, great music, lots of wine, hot tub, hopefully great conversation and whatever else that may lead to.

I'm one of those cheap dates but expensive wives.