• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    20·
    1 month ago

    First date with someone who absolutely hated Apple started talking about getting a smart phone (this was around 2010) and how she should probably get an iPhone cause it’s better but boy does she hate Apple.

    I’m just sitting there, can’t believe this moment is happening cause it’s the sort of thing you’d see scripted in a movie or tv show. She finishes hating Apple and asks btw what do I do?

    “I work for Apple on the iPhone.”

    She practically choked she was so surprised, laughing, and feeling embarrassed. We ended up dating for a while and remained friends after.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    19·
    1 month ago

    I wanted to take a girl out. But I wanted to do something fun. I was sick of getting coffee; watching movies is worse. It’s just fuckin awkward. I had taken a girl some time before for beers and ping pong one time, and we had a fuckin BLAST. And so, I thought to myself, what is fun? Like ping pong fun? I know! Go karts are fun! Let’s do some go karts!

    And so for my first date with this poor girl we went to a go karts place and got in our little go kart suits and raced go karts around the track. That was the day that I learned that not all girls like go karts. Idk; she thought I was unique I guess; she tried to have a good time and we kept seeing each other after. But she referred to the go karts date as her “trauma” and regularly gave me shit for it after, and for my general lack of any kind of adult understanding of women or life in general.

    TL;DR apparently I am 12 years old I guess

    • Sundial@lemm.ee
      17·
      1 month ago

      Go Karting is a very fun date idea. I think the wrong thing was to make it a first date kind of thing. Assuming you didn’t know each other beforehand, the first few dates should be the kind where you actually talk to each other to determine compatibility. Stay being awesome though. Think I might take my wife go Karting. Haven’t done it in a while.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        13·
        1 month ago

        Yeah. Dates where something HAPPENS are in my experience an S tier idea. Walking around the park, playing a game, interacting in some way. All good things. Like I say, getting buzzed and playing ping pong and flirting was fuckin magic. But both of us being in our go karts with helmets on and 0 interaction and the stress of “wtf I am going way too fast what if I crash this thing I hate this so much” is a little bit less of an S tier idea. Definitely for a first date at least.

  • unn@lemmy.ca
    18·
    1 month ago

    We dated over the phone because we’re from different continents both eating a favorite food of mine 😂 she told me I was way more confident than the usual shy guy I was so she got a bit shy. I could hear her telling her family to not interrupt her because she was on a date.

  • squid_slime@lemm.ee
    15·
    1 month ago

    i walked my date to the taxi office, she proceeded to pull her phone out and call the taxi office from inside unaware of her own location, i glanced at the lady at the desk talking to my date over the phone then with a massive smirk i stared at my date who was unaware. once she noticed me grinning the penny had fallen.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
    14·
    1 month ago

    We realized we were both from Hassia (a German state) and from that moment on we just talked in that dialect and made jokes for the rest of the day. It didn’t work out between us but it was a super fun date.

  • Waveform@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 month ago

    One time when I worked at a hardware store, I was loading concrete bags for a woman and I asked her, “you wanted eight?” to confirm how many she requested. She asked back, “do I want a date??” Anyway, I was too shy to pretend that I was asking her out, so this comment is only sort of about dating.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 month ago

    I had met a girl online when I was in college. She knew some friends of mine through an online game we all played. She was going to be in my home town, I decided to come home for the weekend to meet her in person. It also happened to coincide with a Burger King opening in town (small rural town, so it was a big deal) I asked her to go on a date with me to BK. She agreed, and also being from a small town she understood the big deal of the opening.

    While we were waiting in line to order one of the guys I went to high school with tried to sell me an 8 ball and a sheet of acid. He got really pushy, so I decided it was time to leave. She was oblivious to the situation and just wanted to order dinner.

    We ended up outside of town at a bonfire instead. Never really did get that first date, but I did marry her 5 1/2 years later.

    • nis@feddit.dk
      1·
      1 month ago

      Take her to that Burger King as a surprise for your tenth anniversary 😀

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            1 month ago

            2001 was when we got married. We met in 95. I was not looking for a date at the time. I be was playing a text based game, meet someone and we starting chatting. When I asked her on the first date it was mostly a joke as we were going to be in town at the same time.

  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 month ago

    “No homo” immediately after having sex for the first time, we have been together for 8 years now

    (We are lesbians this isn’t homophobia)