Creative Dating

Thanks to Kaycee for helping me remember this little nugget of dating shame with your post over at VSoM last week.

I had been dating this guy at BYU in my family home evening group (a BIG "no-no"!) for a few weeks, when he took me on a date to Subway for dinner. We stood at the counter to order, and I studied the menu intently. You have to understand that I hate making decisions on food selections at restaurants because I always think someone else's food looks better once we sit down to eat. Sometimes it takes me an embarassing amount of time to decide because I'm second-guessing myself. I was studying this thing!

A few awkward moments passed where I felt like all eyes were watching me: "So WHAT is your ORDER already?" they were thinking. My date was staring at me. The 2 Subway employees across the counter were staring and half-smiling.

"What? WHAT is your problem?" I'm thinking.

Then my date asks, "Did you read the entire menu?"

"I'm still thinking...hold on." The pressure is mounting! Quick, Suzie! Pick anything! I'm still staring intently, hands in my back pockets...straining to read all of the little words in the description of each sandwich.

And then I realize why everyone is staring: At the top of the menu is says, "S-, will you go to Homecoming with me? Love, M-"

I have such a horrendous memory, I don't remember what I did next. But, apparently I didn't answer him there, because I did it in a much more "creative" (a.k.a mortifyingly embarassing!) way later that week. I'm so embarassed I can't even write about it. You'll have to ask Amy Lynn for the rest of the story, because it involved her, and I can't BELIEVE she went along with it. HORRORS!