In honor of Aja, what was your first date? How old and what did you do?

[badatmath]

As best memory serves I was ~ 15. IIRC we went to one of the Star Wars movies that had just come out. Wasn't really a fan of the movie (or the date)!

 

[rk911]

I was about 13-14. Mom, myself her neighbor friend and the neighbor's daughter took us to a live, amateur production of Peter & The Wolf. I hated it...not the girl, per se, but the production and my mother's attempt to set me up. "Patty" must've felt the same since neither of us had much to say to each other.

I had an on-again/off-again girl I liked in high school but she kept going out with me, then 'Tim', back to me....rinse and repeat. Many years later I heard she was married and was a walking, talking baby machine.

Before meeting my wife in my senior year of high school I actually had two dates in one night. Both were co-workers at the local Burger King.

 

[Alan]

I went out of the country for the first time on a 10 day school road trip to Germany when I was 13. I became good friends with a girl from the year below me and after we got back took her out on a date, walking in a local park and getting an ice cream before walking her home.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I was 15 and Rhonda was 17. She and her friends all had their driver's license. We sat in the back seat of a beautiful '63 Impala convertible and did some cruising and played miniature golf. It's the first date I remember. We dated for two months or so in 1967.

 

[steelyman]

I was a sophomore in high school and was asked to a dance at the community center. She was a very cute girl and I was clueless: what do you DO on a date? But I went, got my dad to drive me.

She played field hockey and showed up with a large bandage and splint on her nose. It turned out she had taken a hockey ball in the face at afternoon practice and broke her nose - ouch! BUT… she showed up and that’s what mattered. Classy girl!

 

[street]

About 16 and she asked me out. Friday night small town football game and she came to town in 4x4 truck (ford) and we drove around and talked. I might have had a drivers license but I had no wheels.
That started with her being my girlfriend and close friend for a few years. I should have stayed with it and married that girl. I was to young and stupid at the time but have thought about it many times.

 

[levindb]

FIRST date was actually when I was 6...her mother picked me up and we went ice skating. First time for me, and I was terrible. An ice rink employee felt sorry for me on my borrowed, rusty skates...she literally picked me up and took me off the ice and gave me a proper pair of skates. That was about 70 years ago and for some reason, I still remember that day. I guess you always remember your FIRST...

 

[VanWinkle]

First date was when I was 16. I was a little later due to Catholic all male boarding school from age 13-17. I went home with a friend and took a girl to her junior prom. We dated long distance for about a year. There were others before that, but not a real date.

 

[COcheesehead]

16. Got Dad’s car. It was the summer before Junior year. She was a Pom Pom girl. Went and saw Breaking Away.
It was a great summer.

 

[pb4uski]

I can't remember back that far. But one of my early memories was driving a girl I was sweet on home from square dancing. I was 16 and she was 15 IIRC. We got to her house and I pulled into her driveway which was a slight upward incline. I leaned over to kiss her and the car started rolling backwards. I forgot to put it into park!

 

[Car-Guy]

Far too much water under the bridge to remember such details.

 

[Sue J]

My first date was a guy named Al. I think I was 15 and he was 16. We went to a pool party which was quite awkward for me, but it did end up with my first kiss ever and a 2nd date.

I was really not attracted to him at all and I was relieved when I heard he was dating someone else. But I got that FIRST DATE and FIRST KISS out of the way!

Now the 2nd boy I dated was a keeper. Headed for 50th wedding anniversary in 2026.

 

[pacergal]

Not allowed to date until age 16. First date was to a movie "Soylent Green" with Charleton Heston.
Weird movie, he was kind of a weird guy, too, he was 18.
By our second date, he was already talking about marriage and took me to meet his Mom!
There was no third date-lol

 

[Ronstar]

I was 16, She was 14. First date was the same day after taking my ACT test. Stressful day. She was the oldest daughter of my first grade teacher. We went to a movie, but I can't remember it. Went to the prom later in the year.

 

[disneysteve]

I honestly don't remember whatever qualified as my first real date so I'll answer for my first "first" date with my future wife. We met at a youth group Halloween party on 10/30 held at her house. The next day, I got a phone call and it was her. Turns out her friend dialed my number and shoved the phone in her hand. They were going to see Halloween (on Halloween day) and asked if I wanted to go with her, and I did. I don't recall if we did anything other than the movie but there may have been food involved afterwards.

We ended up dating for about 6 months and then she broke up with me over a misunderstanding (we were 16/17). We ran in the same circles so we continued to be around each other, and I made it a point to stay in touch even after high school and beyond. 9 years later I was working as a theater lighting designer and happened to make one of my periodic calls to her. I knew she had lighting experience so I asked if she'd like to be on my lighting crew. She agreed and by the end of the show we were dating again. Our second "first" date was dinner before the show that night. Lousy pizza but made a good story. The original first date was 45 years ago. The second first date was 36 years ago. We've been married now for 33+.

 

[Aerides]

First date with DH (both divorced, early 30's by this point). I had him meet me at the bar area of a J Alexanders restaurant. Meet for drinks kind of thing, easy to bail after one if you don't click, but if things are going well, perhaps it becomes dinner.

It went well, but DH assumed that since we met there at 8pm I must have already eaten (I had not...), so we never moved on to dinner. 3 hours and 3 glasses of wine later, I knew there was gonna be a 2nd date, but by the time I got home I was starving!

 

[aja8888]

This thread got me thinking about way back in time, and that's sometimes hard to do.

It was 1960 (yes, that long ago), and I was 16 and a junior in High School. I was on the baseball team and had a 1955 Chevrolet. My life was baseball and cars (still is, kind of...). Junior prom was around the corner and I didn't care one bit. But a classmate friend of mine decided to get me fixed up with one of the gals who watched our games. That was uncomfortable as we met and I asked her to go to the prom, and she said yes. I was scared.

So I picked her up on Prom night and we went to the prom which was held at a local golf course facility. I didn't know how to dance......well what else is new? I was a baseball player! But we did dance (kind of) a few slow ones and had dinner, etc and then I took her home. That was it. I got it done! Pin a badge on me!

A year later, one of my friends invited me on a double date with his date's sister. Vaguely, I recalled the smell of perfume on my prom date and I kind of missed it. So I went and we clicked pretty well (her name was Susie). She went to a different school and this was graduation year. We dated until I GOT MY DRAFT NOTICE in 1964 and had to leave. She said she would wait for me to come back. Well you can guess how that turned out!

If I would have married her, we would have 10 kids and I would be still working in the local cast iron foundry pouring hot metal to make sewer covers.

 

[Koolau]

If I would have married her, we would have 10 kids and I would be still working in the local cast iron foundry pouring hot metal to make sewer covers.

In the inimitable words of Rocky Balboa "It's a livin'" (when asked why he was a "leg-breaker" for a loan shark).

 

[camfused]

I was 16, so was she, I think. Nervous as heck, I picked her up and we went to a revival screening of Gone With the Wind. The movie theater was almost empty, and the AC was so low, I am surprised I didn't see penguins walking by. They showed the GWTW version that had no break at all, something like 3+hrs long. I was shivering from the cold and being nervous.

I guess I didn't completely mess it up, since she gave me a kiss afterwards and we went on a half-dozen dates after that. I am glad I did not end up with her in the long run. We learn / refine our needs / wants through trial and error. I had 3 different women want to marry me over the years before ending up with DW (34.5 years and counting).

 

[sengsational]

There were a bunch of kids in the neighborhood that mostly hung around in groups of separate boys and girls, but occasionally we'd be in the same place and talk, or know each other from the bus. Probably around age 14 or so I'd meet one of the neighborhood girls for a walk on the beach or fly a kite or something. Kind of a date, I guess. "Meet you at the pavilion after dinner? Yeah." Or maybe "Come over and see my parrot," but I think that one was an excuse to get me alone, hehe! More of a summertime thing.

As to driving over and picking a girl up for a "real date," I remember the different girls but not which girl was the first one I ever picked up in the car. I remember we went to movies and things, but no specifics. The only age 16 date that I DO remember one specific...I got Steve Miller band cassette (because that's what she said she liked on an earlier date). She was not impressed by the cassette or anything I did or said. She was cold as ice, and I remember thinking "what did it do?!?" It was weird because our earlier dates were great, like the most mooching I'd ever done kind of great. The next week, she was dating my best friend. Aha! Discovery: It was a bad move to do that double date. We actually swapped girlfriends, but the one I ended up with didn't do it for me and didn't last long.

 

[sparky08]

First date was during the summer of 1977. It was before I had a drivers license. We went to a movie (Grease? Saturday Night Live?).

We dated until the fall Homecoming dance and broke up soon after.

 

[ArmchairMillionaire]

I can honestly say I do not remember.

It was a good friend's older sister. A group of us would hang out together. At some point, my friend's sister and I started hanging out together without the others.

When people would initially ask either of us if we were 'an item', we would each tell them to ask the other person. This went on for about 6 months before we finally admitted that we were dating.

We dated for about 3 years.

 

[prudent_one]

I was 16, working in the local convenience store in a tiny (physically) town. Groups of school girls in and out of the store all evening. One eventually invited me to hang out with them on Friday at her house as her mother was going to be away for the evening. Everyone sat on the porch, we all ate some ice cream, listened to music, talked a lot. It got to be like 11 PM, everyone was heading home - they all lived close enough to walk home as did I. The girl whose house it was whispered to me that I needed to leave for at least 15 minutes and make sure everyone was gone, then come back. So I did. Was that a date? I guess not.

 

[audreyh1]

I can’t remember!!!

I had a wild and crazy adolescence. And attended 4 different high schools. It was all a whirlwind.

 

[FlaGator]

Many "first dates", proof that I needed practice to get it right.

First date with one was a Steve Miller concert, the "Fly like an Eagle" tour, it went well.

But followed that up later with the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" movie, thinking it was a chick flick. Undid whatever I did right with the concert with that one (look it up).