dates and slow dances...not a venn diagram...

well...not yet.

tempted to end the post there, I was.

dance on friday:
this one boy who i have known all my life danced with me (slow danced) and since he is my age he knows how to do more than the "deacon shuffle" and we talked for about two and a half minutes before we ran out of things to say and I became aware that his hand was on my waist and  mine was on his shoulder and the fact that this proximity is not something I am used to.
commence blushing and struggle for words as to avoid him realizing that i am unnerved by realizing this new proximity and then i remembered, with vivid clarity, what it felt like to be 14.

date:
dramatis personae
b=boy
m=me

b-what are you doing tonight?
m-nothing...
b-want to go see robin hood?
m-yes!

b lives far away so he asks m to look up times in town.
b's commitments run late, misses movie
b and m drive around trying to find an ice cream shop
(m's recollection of good restaurants in gb is achingly absent)
on the way to somewhere less desirable (sonic?) m sees sweet greasy burger joint dive and instructs b to stop
they stop
enjoyment of delicious greasy burger joint shakes and food with ongoing discussion of lives/art
driving back to m's they decide to see movie after all
waiting in line for movie discussion of favorite novels/movies/genres/artists ensue
m=comedies, pixar, geekery
b=action, classics, geekery
movie=robin hood=less-than desirable
also =much skewering, uncompelling love story, inaccurate portrayal of some real events
post movie discussion both concur it's unsatisfactory level
b drops m off
says he had good time
m agrees (that she had a good time too)

the end (obviously not)