jello24 | 09-08-2013 12:26 AM | Quote:
Originally Posted by nabs
(Post 8315375)
let us know how it goes. | Well, I just got back from that date and let me once again say thanks to all who contributed. Great, insightful discussion all around, and it made pulling this one off a bit easier.
Now that that's out of the way, you can ignore the rest, but for those interested, below is a play by play of how the night went down. Quote:
The "night" actually began at 2:30 PM, when she tells me the following words: I have overprotective parents. I don't know about the rest of you, but for a Filipino, that means the Western style of dating which I intended on using tonight isn't going to work, AT ALL. For a Filipino, parents who are "traditional" expect the traditional style of Filipino courtship, meaning, you don't woo the girl so much as you woo her parents. No parents, no go. So that just threw a wrench to my "No Flowers" part of the night. Now I scrambled out of the house to get flowers for her, AND chocolates for the rest of her family. I head out to Lansdowne to get her a single pink rose, and a box of chocolates. Mission done.
Fast forward to 6:15, I knock on the door expecting her to answer and LO and BEHOLD, it's her dad. Jesus, this isn't going to be easy for me, is it? I ask for her, dad looks at my hands, sees flowers and gift-wrapped box of chocolates, and smiles. He says I'll let her know you're here, and lets me in the living room, where I meet her mom. Mom was shocked to see me, and to ease her anxieties, I pass her the chocolates, which I think surprised her a bit. She accepts it, and I keep the flowers with me. Now everyone in that house knows I'm serious. Her sister runs down, looks at me, runs up and I hear screaming. Whats that about? Date comes down, we hug, I pass her the flowers, mom's just standing there smiling, sister smiling as well, dad nowhere to be seen. I think the flowers did their job well.
We head out, I open her door for her, we go downtown to find parking. Sometime between paying for the parking and leaving the lot, I tell her she looks stunning, and put my arms around her. She says I'm sweet, and we walk to Guu with her arms around my elbow, talking about Pokemon and all that fun stuff. Things are starting to look up. Talk, talk, talk, we leave Guu and head out for Bella Gelato, and this time I take her hand and hold it all the way. Wait in line to get a scoop of ice cream, sit down on the benches below the Olympic Flame and get real close. Like side by side, hand in hand close. Talk, talk, talk... Make fun of Surrey, things like that. I ask her if she wants to see Vancouver from Cypress. She says she'd love to.
We head out, hand in hand again, all the way to the lot, and head to Cypress. We discuss music, things like that, then we reach the view point. It's crowded and dark, but we've already done all our talking down in the city and are now just getting close. I put my arm around her again, she does the same to me, but she can feel that I was getting cold so that was fun. She loved the view, and I got to point out the Big Dipper to her, which blew her mind, and then we head out. On the way home she got to listen to my favorite song, we had a laugh discussing weird driving examiners, and then we get to her house.
Walk her to her door, she tells me she had a nice night, i say likewise, we hug, and I kiss her on the cheek. She opens her door, we hug again, and we say our good nights. She texts me as I'm hitting Oak Street Bridge about how she had fun and all that good stuff.
| TL;DR: Mission accomplished? I think yeah... |