Great idea! Remember, it doesn’t count unless you have a specific time and activity.
Suggestions: think coffee shop or movie or concert or daytrip to someplace cool.
Me? I’d go for the daytrip. Find a semi-historical or just a really cool place to visit near you. Google start times, days closed, etc. Have parking & entrance fees set aside in a different pocket; this trip is on you. Pretend its a camping trip where you are responsible for everything & she’s a tender-foot you have to show the ropes to. (Yes, I know that sounds insulting, but unless you have a clear plan, this will all devolve into “What do you want to do?” “I dunno…what do you want to do?” for 3 hours)
Pack the car with blankets, snacks she can share (trail mix?) a thermos of coffee, a bottle of wine (bonus points if you bring glasses & a corkscrew; double bonus points if the coffee is fixed how she likes it.) and maybe a backgammon set just in case? Don’t forget to have the gas tank full before you pull up. Be on time to pick her up. Open the car door for her. Show passion & desire to go where you are taking her. And share the binoculars, etc. Take pictures and ask her to take pictures too. Point out cool stuff you know about where you’ve taken her. (“Look, that’s a red-tailed hawk” or “You can see three states from this bluff” or “Those cloisters were built by monks who went their whole lives without Ever Having Sex. WTF were they Thinking!?”)
Have mapquest print outs to and from the place,but also have printouts to a several restaurants near to the route, which you’ll let her choose from. Or you could stop at a place you both saw on the way up that looked nice. (Remember, she’s vegan, and while she’s trying to be accepting because she likes you, taking her to ‘Famous Dave’s BBQ’ is just like poking her with a stick. Granted a wonderful smelling mesquite stick, cooked to perfection & slathered in your choice of 1 of 3 different BBQ sauces or the famous St. Louis dry-rub, all with corn bread on the side… but she’s just not going to appreciate it. )
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Speaking as one who has rather suddenly gotten back in contact with an ex (one whom came extremely close to me writing several threads, most of which would have started in the bit, about), I’d say give it the ol’ college try…again.
Hopefully things will go well this weekend!
oh and Hostile Dialect
might have lost your “tonight” time window right there.
And secondly, CALL, don’t text. I’m fairly certain almost all girls respond much more positively to calls, and, as said above, specific dates and times.
Thirdly, and not to rain on your parade or whatever, do your friends independently confirm that these girls are in to you? One of my friends in particular is constantly thinking girls are in to him that, when he mentions this, I shake my head and say “no dude, she was maybe acting, but definitely not really…”
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Yeah, that’s probably a good idea. I’m fairly swamped with finals (yet I still find time for the SDMB…sigh), so I’ll give it a shot next week…
Sure. Friends and even acquaintances tell me that specific girls are into me more often than I deduce it myself. Because I’ve been wrong about it before, I try not to pay my instincts about it too much mind, but in this case it was blatant. She was exhibiting all the classic behavior that I use when I’m intoxicatingly awed by a girl I meet. Not to mention all of the touching–we were with several close friends of hers, a few of whom were mutual friends, and I didn’t see her physically touch any of them the whole night, but she kept touching me the whole time.