Dating

How many people have been on a proper date? The type where a specific day and time is agreed on ... you spend time to get ready ... he knocks on the door, etc etc etc. Is it done this way anymore? I have no idea. I've never been on a date of this type in my life. If it isn't done anymore, I guess I missed out. I'm too late.

Before I met x, my "dates" consisted of going to a party and hooking up with a guy. The term 'hooking up' wasn't used in those days - it was the seventies - but that's basically what it was. When I met x, I was still in my teens. He was a caveman/biker type who drank in a bar with a noisy group of bikers and hookers and strippers. After meeting me in the wee hours one morning as I was making my way back to the abandoned house where I was a squatter, he invited me to this bar the following friday. I said yes. At the bar, he bought me one drink, then told me I'd have to pay for my own after that ("I don't buy drinks all night for any broad" is how he put it). He yanked my chair closer to his own and shoved his tongue down my throat. I had no money, so couldn't buy more alchohol, but I was able to keep up my high with the speeders that appeared like magic in my palm every half hour or so. That was our first date. The following dates with x were all in a similar vein.

So that's it. That's my dating history.

One of these days I want to go on a proper date. I don't care about fancy restaurants and all that. I don't believe a date has to cost a lot of money in order to be successful. Actually, I think it might be true (at least for me), that the simpler and less expensive, the more I would enjoy it. Seriously I don't know if I could get comfortable knowing my date was spending an arm and a leg for dinner and all the rest, just to be with me. I would prefer to go for a walk, maybe have some food with us and eat it at the beach, I don't know ... something like that I guess.