Sunday, 05 April 2009

• Dates That Would Have Ended Incredibly Badly

  I've planned a  couple of dates that fell through . . . but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
  
  1. I saw that the local soccer team was in the playoffs, so I asked my then-GF if she wanted to go to the game. She politely turned me down, citing the two-hour drive from the stadium to her place after the game. She lived an hour away from me, and I lived an hour away from the stadium.) Nuts. I asked my brother if he wanted to go to the game. HECK YEAH! 
  
  We went, and it was a great game - great parking, and the home team won.  Wooo! BUT...it was raining. It was cold. It was miserable. While it ended up being a great guys' night out, it would've been a terrible date night.
  
  2. A few years later, same cute girl.  Driving through town, asking that classic question, "Whaddya wanna do?"
  
  "I dunno, whadda YOU wanna do?" I thought about a Mexican restaurant I'd taken her to after a special occasion. Almost mentioned it. Didn't. Ended up going to the arcade, tossing a few dozen quarters into various video games and ticket machines. Then we finished off with a stop at Taco John's. 
  
  I asked her later, "Would you have liked to go to that Mexican restaurant?" She said, "yeah...I almost mentioned it."
  
  That would've been so sweet.
  
  EXCEPT..
  
  I kid you not, the next day I'm checking the local news online, and I read "Roof Collapses at Local Restaurant". Yeah. That Mexican restaurant. (Just a small chunk, 6' x 3') Nobody was injured, but falling sheet rock and insulation would've really put a damper on our afternoon date.
  
  Have you ever avoided a date-night disaster?
  

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