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Date Ideas: Throw them out there.
The Last Gent
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I'm casting a wide net, but I figured what the hell, this is worth a shot. Just throw out some random ideas for dates. Specifics: Male dating female, college students, early 20's, kind of geeky and odd. But just chuck out whatever comes to mind.
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-Ice skating
-Whale watching
My girlfriend was completely surprised by all of these and we proceeded to have romantic-comedy-like adventures.
-Disney (Wide net and not knowing where you live...)
-Movies
-Salesman teasing, not much of a date, but if done right quite enertaining....
-Museums (Especially if there are technology museums since you asked for geeky)
-People watching somewhere with lots of people, like a food court. (Goes good with movies)
-Goin' for a drive and just talkin' to each other, not necessarily going somewhere in particular, just get out there
-Romantic spot nearby (For example, in Florida we have Bok Tower, highest point in Florida, and it's gardens)
-Zoo (Though some women may not like the smell of crap)
Honestly, I played the disney card fairly frequently with my wife since we live here, and they offered this Epocot after 4pm pass, which lets you get into the park after 4pm till they close, which we upgraded to Florida Resident passes about two months later... Lots of fun there...
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Anyway, my off the wall suggestion is ghost hunting. Walk around talking at a place that's supposed to be haunted.
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They're usually empty and quiet during the weekdays, have a coffee shop, and it provides plenty of talking points.
Salesman teasing is where you go into a store like Best Buy or CCity, or anywhere that has salesman who are pushed to sell accessories, warranties, whatever as long as they're actual salesman, not some cashier...
Anyways, you start talking to them about various products and go through the entire sales pitch with them, agreeing or disgreeing as you see fit, and at the very end when you agree on everything you want/need you say something to the effect of "Hang on, let me go get my wallet", go out to your car, and leave. Or you can ask if they think you can strap it to the roof of your car, and so on and so forth...
The "date" aspect of this would be if the girl can play along like, "Oh honey, we that's way below what we can afford, how about this one?" starring at a TV much larger/expensive.
Yes this is technically cruel as you've gotten his hopes up, wasted his time, probably left him with a bunch of product to put up, but hey you leave with a few good laughs..
Alternatively, I teased salesmen in a less direct approach one time, I went to a Future Shop in Canada with my watch, that at the time had a built in TV Remote, and I memorized various settings for various TV brand names and went casually strolling through the TV department with my arms behind my back just turning the TVs off as I walked by... By the time I considered myself done, I noticed a few salesmen pulling TVs from the wall and checking the wiring and such... Felt a little bad, but I had a good laugh...
Yes I'm cruel, but damn there's been some good times teasing salesmen...
-Scenic places are also good for dates, taken my wife to Niagara Falls once, that place was nice and had dones of stuff to do... It's like a romantic getaway...
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Arcade!
Cooking lessons
This is actually fantastic. Spend time going to the grocery store, grab a cooking book there and look through it, decide on something, go shopping for the ingredients, go home, cook it, ???, profit.
edit: if you can go to the biggest store you can find and it gives you more time to walk around talking, making jokes about things/people in the store (if you can pull off this kind of conversation while sounding funny and not like a jerk), it's a good timesink and makes the date longer too. Make sure you can keep him/her entertained though.
Sunsets are the best though, very memorable with the right gal..
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Free yoga clinic
Ballroom / swing dancing lessons
I really like this kinda idea, but I think unless you know the girl really well it's better as a second date. You can use the first to find out if she's the romantic type who would be into this sort of thing.
One thing I did one was, to give you an idea, after supper late one night we went for a walk through a dark, mostly unlit park and I had blankets and candles waiting for me in the clearing, and we just watched the stars (Perseid Meteor Shower in August last year), because she loved that sort of thing.
Never forget that date...
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movies
supper
art gallery
museum (science, etc)
picnics (uh, not during winter normally though)
rock climbing
walks in the park
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Second Idea: Get a Wii.
Also I had a website made for me once, that was romantic, it was a gift for a 3rd anniversary and was given to me after a very romatic night at the theartre.
other nice things are:
-Movies
-Dinners
-Galleries
-Quirky cafes
-Brunch with each others friends
-Watching sunsets or sunrises on the beach
-Walks (an ex of mine suggest a dog walking thing, we both didn't have a pet and missed it.)
Anywhere you and her can get away from the normal day to day and just be together alone is a lovely date!
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This is pretty good minus the driving around the block. Instead you should just ask her to come in for a second, take her to the table with everything ready and some candles, this way it would be more of a surprise and less corny.
When you are done you can go to a local orphanage and try to adopt a young child who lost his parents. When you are about to sign the papers, hope brimming in the young child's eyes, you yell 'PSYCH!' and run out.
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My. Hero. I suddenly have an urge to have your babies. ...then quickly give them up for adoption because kids scare me. And for the irony.
Date ideas. My dates have never been conventional. Here are a few things I've been known to spring on someone.
-Walk around the city at midnight just to get the 'flip side' and talk to cool, possibly intoxicated people.
-Fishing/being lazy in a fun location while /looking/ like you're doing something productive.
-Painting a room. (clothing optional) I did that one a month ago. Great success.
-Random, quirky block garage sale/cart vendor/farmer's market scouting.
-Used book store (I saw book store up there. Used ones are fun, too.)
-Around various harvest times and areas, going berry/fruit picking or herb harvesting. Some places around my home town had some great places for that.
-Random hiking or lallygagging around a state park/nature center.
-Something hilariously childish and silly like a Paint your Pottery kind of place.
-Flip open a phone book in the restaurant menu section. Flip and jam your finger down. Go there.
-Bringing a bunch of nostalgic childhood cartoons/movies and realizing how /horribly/ /awesome/ they really are.
I also have had some interesting drinking game ideas.
Movies, bowling, If you have a nice local park just a good walk isn't that bad.
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Theater
If you have pets something as simple as walking a dog together.
Concert
Go to a winery and go wine tasting
Microbreweries are always fun
Brilliant.
Also, I think someone mentioned dancing...if you can find somewhere that does drop-in dance lessons, I really think that would impress a girl. Even if you're positively horrible at dancing, just going out and laughing at yourself will show her that you're confident/willing to try new things.
Another date he took me on a few months in was a "choose your own adventure" date, where he drew me a little 10 or so page book full of decisions I had to make (like whether to go to dinner or for an activity first, then to choose the activity, then to choose where to have dinner, etc.) It was cool because he clearly put a lot of thought into it.
Dates that happen by accident are always fun too. We seem to have that happen a lot 2 years in. And cooking together is also fun if you've got the time.
It's why the zoo and places like cafés and bookstores are fantastic. The zoo you can talk about the animals and the people, a busy café you can sit down and people watch and talk about them or in bookstores you can page through different topics on the books there and use that as a basis.
It isn't so much as something to do, it's something to interact with the other person, cooking a meal that you have never made for example is excellent because you can do it together and do something new together.
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