# Your most interesting date
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-date/123330
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 10, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-date/123330 "2002-08-10T23:14:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-date/123330/41 "2003-07-15T21:17:51Z")
I’ve had very few actual dates, so I’ll have to go with a non-date – that is, I wasn’t on a date, but she was.
It was with this girl I knew through some mutual friends. I met her at a party one night and, being drunk, hit on her mercilessly. She was a perfectly nice girl, but I wasn’t attracted to her, and I didn’t find her especially interesting, either.
She was pretty obviously interested in me, however. She invited me along to several group outings, but I always made excuses. I couldn’t keep it up forever, though (we were ostensibly friends), so I finally bit the bullet and agreed to go with her to see “Death to Smoochy” (a pretty lame movie, btw).
My purpose on the date was to get the message across that I wasn’t interested, without having actually to say it. I was careful to avoid physical contact. When we got to the ticket counter, I slowed down to let her buy her own ticket (though walking up first and declaring, “one please” might have been better). Etc. The problem was that, with the pressure off, I was funnier and more charming than I ever am around girls I actually _want_ to date – and, besides, the first time we met I spent two solid hours flirting with her.
When we parted for our respective dorm rooms at the end of the night, she was at least half-expecting a kiss (instead she got a “well, goodnight”). Her Instant Messenger away message that night was along the lines of “Sleeping; maybe dreaming of someone to wake up next to ;)”
Ugh. I figured I had to nip this in the bud, so I sent her a message online (I’m a coward) saying that I like you and I’m attracted to you (and a liar), but I think we work a lot better as friends than anything more. (I had to lie to her, no? Otherwise it would read like, “You’re sweet, but man are you ever _ugly_.” No one needs to hear that.)
Her away messages the next few days featured lots of :(s and generally expressed dismay. Finally she asks to see me to talk. When we meet, she demands – repeatedly – to know why I don’t want to go out with her. That’s in my Top 5 most uncomfortable conversations ever (I stuck to my “just don’t like you that way” story).
We still catch up online once every couple months.
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### Author:  [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-date/123330/42 "2009-02-16T20:55:50Z")
> [@mipiace](#):
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> Weirdest start to a date was when I accidentally punched the instructor of my self defense class and gave him a black eye. We dated for about 5 months after that.
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> But my absolute best date I ever had was a couple of years ago. I had been totally in love with this guy but we were only friends. We’d kissed a few times but that was as far as it had ever gone. I lived in Europe at the time and he had moved to Boston.
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> I was going back to Europe coming from a business trip in DC and since we emailed all the time I offered to stop in and visit him in Boston. As I said, as far as I knew we were only friends so I didn’t even ask to stay at his house, I rented a hotel downtown.
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> IT was right before Christmas and the snow was gently falling when he came to pick me up at my hotel. I wasn’t sure where we would be going so I wasn’t sure of how to dress. I met him downstairs in the lobby and he was dressed nice, I was in jeans so I invited him up while I changed. We hugged in the lobby and I thought how good he smelled and how nice he felt next to me and it seemed (or was it my imagination?) that he held me just a split second longer than a friendship merited. Anyway we went upstairs and I was digging in my suitcase and he was watching me. I turned around and bumped into him and there I was in his arms again. There was some song playing on the radio…“I keep on falling in love with you” he was singing softly and I leaned in meaning to give him a peck on the lips and BAM! I have never been kissed like that. Suddenly we were in this trashy romance novel kind of sexual encounter. Like when you have wanted to for three years and never have…😉
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> Afterward we left and went to dinner and he was talking so fast I could barely keep up all about how he had never gotten me out of his mind and how he thought about me all the time and how … HE WAS IN LOVE WITH ME. I had no idea, he’d kept it to himself so well, I didn’t even know he really had romantic feelings for me. I was in heaven. He never left my side that entire weekend. We were together every minute even in the shower and we made love over and over. It wasn’t just sex either, I totally felt like he was making love to me.
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> We walked all around Boston and it snowed off and on. We would steal kisses when no one was looking, cuddle on the train. We went ice skating with all the kids in the Common (which was interesting considering I am from Florida…). We went Christmas shopping and sang Christmas carols while we walked around the city. As a matter of fact, we both sang all weekend long.
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> This was not only my most memorable date but the best time I have ever had in my entire life.
Um, yeah! I know this is just a date thread, but what happened?!? Is he now an SO, or what! That sounds like my dream (me being him, 'bout a couple diff girls over a couple of decades…)!
Don’t stop there…
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-date/123330/43 "2009-02-16T21:22:05Z")
It’s a good thing this is a zombie thread.
I was looking at it and I thought, “There is NO FUCKING WAY they let the OP back on the board.”
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-interesting-date/123330/44 "2009-02-16T23:30:46Z")
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My most interesting date? We went out for bra-a-a-a-a-ins!
Zombie closed.
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