Do You Remember Your First Date With Your SO?

[njmom47]

Do you remember your first "date" with your current significant other, even if it was decades ago?

We met through the personals in the Asbury Park Press and talked on the phone for awhile. Our first date was dinner at The Office Lounge in Toms River. We did a drive-by in the parking lot where we decided we liked what each other looked like, and I followed him to the restaurant. He later told me he didn't eat dinner because he was so nervous that he ate an entire box of Entenmann's chocolate donuts before he left his house so he didn't have room for dinner. I, on the other hand, ate every bite of my eggplant parm dinner.

I'm thinking, LBIJim, that a couple of things I've mentioned are familiar to you as we are from the same general area.

 

[olwyngdh]

We went with a whole group of friends, mostly couples, to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We were both dressed as Transylvanians.

Geek love is still cute

 

[maslex]

Ours was a blind date / double date.

My husband's friend wanted to ask my friend out on a date but was too shy to go out by himself. So they decided to set my husband up with me and the four of us went out for pizza and the movies. During the night I discovered that my blind date actually worked with my dad a couple years prior.

We then dated 3 years, got engaged...engaged for 2 years. Got married and next year will be our 21st wedding anniversary.

The other couple, not so much. But his friend did end up moving across the street from us and we're now friends with him and his wife.

 

[snapppyd]

Yes, it was 1979. Poor guy drove from Queens to Yonkers to pick me up. Then drove all the way to Manhattan to take me out to dinner. He took me to Vincent's Clam Bar in Little Italy. I looked at the menu and announced "I don't eat fish". I tried fried shrimp for the first time and loved them.

He drove me home and we watched Saturday Night Live. Ever since that night we have never gone a day without talking to or seeing each other.

Our 33rd anniversary is next month

 

[lovesmurfs]

Yes, it was 1979. Poor guy drove from Queens to Yonkers to pick me up. Then drove all the way to Manhattan to take me out to dinner. He took me to Vincent's Clam Bar in Little Italy. I looked at the menu and announced "I don't eat fish". I tried fried shrimp for the first time and loved them.

He drove me home and we watched Saturday Night Live. Ever since that night we have never gone a day without talking to or seeing each other.

Our 33rd anniversary is next month

Posts like this really make me wish DisBoards had a "Like" function.

 

[snapppyd]

Posts like this really make me wish DisBoards had a "Like" function.

Awww shucks, thank you!

 

[HannaBelle]

Yes!

DH and I met at church when we were twelve. He followed me around like a lost puppy and told everyone that he was going to marry me. I refused to go out with him, he was a huge nerd and his mother dressed him funny.

Our first date was in 1991, about a month before he left for boot camp. He wore a salmon colored button up shirt with jeans and boots. I had on black dress short with black hose and a salmon colored sweater. We played putt-putt and drove around town goofing off. We ended up walking around a business park that had a picnic area with small steam and a wooden bridge. Our 1st kiss was on that bridge and I knew right then I was going to give up and marry him. I just didn't tell him yet…

We dated causally that summer because he was leaving in a few months. I missed him more than I expected while he was gone, I went with his parents to pick him up at the airport and let’s just say I am a sucker for a man in uniform.

I still have my sweater and his shirt from our 1st date…

 

[sj&k]

I do. It was on January 31, 1987. We met working at a grocery store and after several months of debating whether he should (because he was quite a few years older than me) he actually asked me to lunch the Sunday before that so that he could officially ask me out. I was working that day, he was not. I was supposed to call him when I got sent to lunch (the time I went was unfortunately not up to me) and he was going to come and pick me up since he lived five minutes away. I went to lunch, and his home phone was not working so I spent my entire lunch break trying to call him. Needless to say, that lunch never happened. He was going out with friends to a comedy club that evening and stopped by instead on his way there to ask me in person...he walked up beside me at the register I was working and asked me to dinner and a movie the next Saturday. We went to see "Allan Quatarmain and the Lost City of Gold" which was a truly awful movie but he chose it because we agreed that we both liked action/adventure movies. Dinner didn't happen because I wouldn't eat in front of him-didn't for 4 months, in fact. We dated for 4 1/2 years and have been married for 23, so I guess the horrible movie and my refusal to eat didn't mess things up too badly.

 

[pigletgirl]

Yes, it was August 31,2004.

 

[bjscheel]

April of 1994, the night before I went to senior prom with someone else (just a friend). I was 17 and he was 23! My mom was at work and not able to meet him before we went. Apparently I was late getting home too. Mom was nervous!! Guess I would be too in her place.

We kept dating through May and Mom decided to herself that if he came to family Vacation Bible School at our church it would be a sign that he was okay for me to stick with- because what 23 year old guy would be interested in that? He walked in that first evening and said "Hi, Mom" and her jaw about dropped.

We've been married 18 years.

 

[Dizneefamily+4]

DH and I met in college. We lived in the same dorm (I actually wanted to date his roommate .) We had a history class together as well. We were casual friends for a couple of years during college and one day he asked me to go out with him to celebrate his taking a big test for his major. I hung up and told my roommate, "I think Joel just asked me out on a date??!! .) We went to see the movie "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle." That date was fate. We dated for 3 years, were engaged for 2 before we got married and we just celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary.

 

[bcla]

Sure. The plan was to go on a short hike, which we did. However, I had something special planned and headed for a supermarket to get some celery and lettuce (more on that later).

Afterwards, I took her on a miniature train ride in the hills. The celery and lettuce were for a small farm up in a public park with animals. It's not quite a petting zoo, but they have cows, birds, pigs, sheep, and goats. The public is only allowed to feed them lettuce and celery as the staff otherwise feeds them well.

We finished off the day with pizza at my favorite place. They had lines out the door and live entertainment that day.

Just about perfect I thought.

 

[soccerdad72]

I don't recall the exact day, but it would have been Fall of 1991 as sophomores in college. We met in Accounting 201 class, talked for a while, then she invited me out with a group of her friends to a movie on campus (that crappy Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie) and Chinese food afterwards.

A week or so later, we had a "real" first date (e.g. just the two of us). Again, we went to a movie (I forget the movie that time).

 

[wishesuponastar]

About June 27, 1995 (Met on June 25 at church singles night)
We were driving and he said you want to go to Tony's (Pizza)? I said sure. Thought he knew the place but he didn't, just saw it passing by.

Married the next year in November.

 

[weeniecat2442]

what a fun topic!

the first date, he picked me and drove about a half hour taking me for drinks at a quaint Inn a few towns over.
we got there to find it closed! we went to a divey Mexican place and drank margaritas instead.
that was not the last time he took me to places that were closed...once he took me to TWO closed places in one day!
one of our favorite jokes now

 

[lauradis]

First time I saw him was in the express lane of Farm Fresh (grocery store) buying gum. He made me go hmmmm.

3 hrs later I saw him in a bar (that my friend owned, stopped in to say hi to my friend), he got up to go to the bathroom and I sat in his seat. lol Talked to his friend, he didn't even talk to me.

Everyone went to Denny afterwards. I wrote my phone number in lipstick (which he still has) and stuck it in his shirt pocket. still didn't talk to me.

The next morning his friend that was with him said "hey if you don't want that girl's number, she's hot, Ill take it." He asked what did she look like (he was wasted).

He called me and asked me out the next day. It was kinda of a blind date for him.

I was 1.5 hrs late to our first date at Ruby Tuesdays. He told me years later he just had to see me. Because Sam his friend only dates "hot chicks"

 

[lovemygoofy]

I met my Matt in July 2001 when I met him through a friend's friend and we all hung out that weekend while we were visiting in KY.

I left him my phone number and email and went home to AR. He started calling and emailing but things like war breaks out and puts a damper on trying to date.

Fast forward to Dec 2001 and I was telling him about a wedding I was going to be in Dec 20 2001. He asked if I had a date and I replied yes and he said "you need to cancel or it's going to be awkward with two date" well he wasn't kidding and showed up for the wedding. I do consider that our first date BUT he stayed for 2 weeks. So not many people get a two week long first date together 24/7

I cried and cried when he left and 366 days after our first date we married. This year is our 12th anniversary

 

[superme80]

DH and I met online and were emailing for about a month before he asked me to meet him for coffee. We met at a Starbucks in Sacramento. It was far enough away that if he turned out to be creepy I could lose him in a bad part of town on my way home. He was late. I was freaking out because some old guy was checking me out. He finally showed up and we sat and chatted for about 4 hours. I mentioned I was hungry and he said I could go home if I wanted. I didn't so he took me to California Pizza Kitchen. That was almost 8 years ago.

 

[nene0182]

November 10, 2007. We had been talking everyday for at least 6 months and he had been asking me out pretty much everyday for 6 months. I had just gotten out of a horrible relationship and kept saying no because I could tell he was a good person and I wasn't in the right frame of mind to be dating anyone. But, I eventually decided that I was ready and decided to go out with him even if it meant ruining a relationship with someone that had quickly become my closest friend.

We went to a local mexican restaurant for dinner (we still go there every anniversary) I knew he was something special when we both kept watching the hockey game on TV instead of talking to each other. We are both huge fans of our local hockey team. After that we went to the bar and met up with some mutual friends and then just drove around for awhile talking. I remember when he dropped me off, I just looked at him and said "you know I really do like you" like it was a big surprise to me since he was different then anyone I had ever dated and older then anyone I had dated (he's 7 years older then me) we've been together since that night.

 

[tigercat]

Our first date was set up by my bil. We both worked for my Dad and my bil. My dm and dd with the rest of my family let for vacation. Because I was summer help I had to stay. My bil had a different holiday time so he was working and my future dh had just started working there. My bil told my dh to take me out for dinner because there was no one at home. He took me to his place (he lived with his ds and her dh) and made me dinner. Then he took me home. He actually was afraid to do anything because I was the boss's dd. That was the first of August 1973. We got engaged on my 18th birthday in Jan. 1974 and got married Oct. 1974. We will be married 40 yrs this year.
tigercat