Funny date story...

[DarkTirade]

Mine's from today. :) I've gone on a few dates with a girl I met right after I moved here. It's going pretty well but we're both in kinda transitional phases in our life so it hasn't moved beyond just going on dates. But that's beside the point.

Anyhow, she flew back into town today and I picked her up at the airport. Her brother is also going to the same school as she is, so he flew in too and I figured I'd be a nice guy and give him a ride to his dorm. Then we went ice skating.

Now, between the two of us I think we've gone ice skating less than 8 times. I was actually starting to get fairly competent at it when I last skated... but that was 13+ years ago. I know this because my neice is about to turn 13, and my brother met his ex-wife at that ice skating rink. :)

Anyhow, we were having fun totally sucking at ice skating. We'd both managed to keep our balance enough not to fall on our asses, but that was about the limit of what we could do. Then I stumbled, and only didn't end up doing a split because I'm in pretty good shape and have pretty strong legs. My pants, however, decided to finish the split for me.

That's right, I split my pants wiiiiide open halfway through our date. All the way from halfway up the zipper to halfway down my thigh. And we still were planning on skating for a little while, then going out to a restaurant afterwards. :) And to top it off, all my clean pants were at the laundrymat. So I couldn't even run home and change.

Thankfully I've learned about dealing with the cold weather up here since I moved here, and I'd dressed in layers. So I had an extra shirt to wrap around my waist.

So that was fun. Can't wait until the next date... not sure how we can top this one, but we'll try.

Anybody else have any funny date stories? I'm sure it's not hard to top mine... :)

[Infomaniac]

1. That is pretty funny.

I'm glad you had a good time.

[Maraya1969]

2. I don't have a funny story but I'm glad you had fun.

[Gonzo Gardener]

3. Sounds a bit drafty!

I haven't dated for over 14 years. I don't really have a silly story that I can share w/o getting your thread locked, but I do have some advice...

Heed my words!!!

Never, EVER handcuff your boyfriend to a hotel headboard and go for a bucket of ice wearing only a towel... without the room key-card! :blush:

[DarkTirade]

4. Mental note: remember keycard. :P

[SallyMander]

5. ...

:spray:

[Gonzo Gardener]

7. True story...

:rofl:

How the heck are ya, Sally?

:hi:

[SallyMander]

9. Doing pretty well

How 'bout you? Did you meanies have a good weekend?


We have a new foster puppy, so that and work have been keeping me busy. We did manage to make it out of the house last night, but ended up at a bar that was way loud and way collegiate... not my favorite scene. :P


Now i'm trying to read a paper - "When Dinner Is Dangerous: Toxic Frogs Elicit Species-Specific Responses from a Generalist Snake Predator"


Cool, but not as entertaining as the Lounge. :D

[Gonzo Gardener]

12. Uneventful... boring, really.

Oh man, I would have a very hard time fostering a puppy. I wouldn't want to give him/her up.

Enjoy the paper...sounds like the snake wins! What causes the toxins to breakdown so quickly in the dead frogs and how the hell do the snakes know how long that takes?! ...amazing, really!

[SallyMander]

14. I will let you know when i read it!

Teehee.

Fostering is hard, but we do it pretty often. I'm always really sad for a day or two... but i have my dog, so that helps. I'm sure once we have a slightly bigger house we'll end up with another one on a permanent basis. :)

[DarkTirade]

13. Some snakes are surprisingly smart.

And some are dumb as a box of rocks, but I love 'em anyway. :)

[mike_c]

6. on my first date with a woman I met about thirty years ago...

...a cop stopped us on the Dulles Airport access road in northern Virginia because one of my LICENSE PLATE LIGHTS was out. That's right, a license plate light. I think he was just bored-- in those days the access road was nearly empty most of the time. He ran the plate and discovered that my registration had expired a few days earlier. I thought I had until the end of the month. Anyway, he impounded the car-- had it towed back to Dulles to an impoundment lot. We rode back to the airport with the tow truck driver, but were put out at the service lot, with a warning from the cop not to hitchhike on federal property. We walked a few miles back to the county road, then hitch hiked most of the way back to her place from there. Altogether we probably walked five or six miles, at night, along rural roads. Neither of us had had dinner yet. There were a few cranky moments. Just about the suckiest first date ever that didn't involve fatalities or anyone actually going to jail.

She married me a couple of years later.

[DarkTirade]

8. Funny how that works out. :)

I've found that the harder you try to make the date a good one, the least you get out of it. :)

Which is why I'm just trying to have fun with someone whose company I enjoy. That way I'm not expecting anything, and I can still relax and have fun. And if I do get a little bit extra, that's just an added bonus.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

10. Sorry if this doesn't sound funny

But it was funny to me... Poor guy...

I was at a Greek restaurant... I knew my guy had a thing about seafood (he absolutely hates fish) but didn't know how bad it was. So I ordered Calamari (with baby octopii with their legs all curled up)

He got really green and said, "They have legs! UGH!"

Then he stood up our menus around my meal to cover it up....

We've been together 7 years and he's starting to get used to the fish smell as I really like ordering fish whenever we eat away from home. I've yet to order calamari with him though.

and um..

One date... We got a wee bit busy in my high school parking lot at like 12 am in the morning and had just gotten dressed and was relaxing.

A FUCKING BRIGHT LIGHT CAME ON (I didn't hear the car pull up and didn't have my hearing aids on).

It was the cops and they were investigating... what I don't know...

Then I said (with my eyes adjusting to the sudden brightness)... I'm deaf and I can't lipread (see) you (honest).

My fiance talked to them (since he could hear them but couldn't quite see them).

They said... "Get a hotel room next time!"

It's still funny to this day.

[DarkTirade]

11. Next time try a more hidden location. :P

Thankfully I never had to learn that lesson the hard way... came close a few times though.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

15. We did...

We were really careful when we fiddled in a forest near Soton.