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Originally Posted by Bionca
In my experience, the best first dates have been high on interacting and low on impressing. Like a good first date would be having some coffee and and conversation or taking a walk and window shopping.
Then again, my idea of a perfect date is ordering some delivery, watching a B-grade horror movie, playing some video games, and talking about comic books. Pretty lame huh?
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My first date would depend on the personality she has. After all, you only ask someone out after chatting with them or knowing them a bit, at which point you work up the nerve to ask them out. But it also gives you a clue as to her personality and "what" would make her comfortable. And since I come from the old fashioned Cary Grant school of chivalry, I think a first date should center on showing your date a good time.
As for me -- based on my personality -- I'd start off with something fun. So, we could do something low-key like meet for drinks in a QUIET pub, the kind of place that lets you kick back and talk for hours. Or we could play pool while snacking a bit, and then use that time to talk and get to know each other better. And hopefully in the midst of this, we'd find common ground for laughing about things, since I can't date anyone without a sense of humor. I just can't. Looks can always change or be altered, but personality is forever.
But since I live in Los Angeles...for a first date...I'd probably by pass the pub thing and go for a bit more fun. Just to see how much fun she can be, too. So, I'd take her to the Santa Monica pier, which has rides and arcades and games, but also has the ocean right there which creates a nice, relaxing backdrop. Then, after spending some time strolling along and discovering my date DOES have a fun sense of humor, I'd like to shift to a lunch or dinner. I know some restaurants in that area which would be great, complete with a ocean view to again set a nice mood.
After that, we could stroll along the boardwalk or take off our shoes and walk in the warm sand, maybe even holding hands by then in an innocent and friendly "date-like" way. Ideally, we would time things right, so we could then watch the sunset over the Pacific together. Then, we'd hop in the car and shift to Hollywood Boulevard, which comes alive in the evening with all sorts of shops lit up and fun places (like wacky mini-museums) to poke your head into. We could stroll along holding hands and window shop...laughing and learning more about each other as we point things out...maybe even pop into a pub here or there if we want to sit and talk.
For a second date, I'd do something similar and fun, but upscale it a bit. This time I'd take her to Disneyland or Universal Studios or something like that, again to get out and be amongst people and to stroll along and eat here or there and just laugh and have fun by enjoying each other's company for a nice day out.
Then for the third date, ideally it would be a home-based date, where we order in some pizza or chinese and kick back and challenge each other to video games or stay up late watching bad old Sci Fi movies and cracking on them and...
HEY WAIT A MINUTE!
My dates sound like the kind of evenings Bionca has in mind!
Gee, too bad she's in a different part of the country.
Otherwise I'd have to ask her out...
