My First Group Date

I never went on a group date in high school, but I should have. It seemed if you asked someone out on a date then you were immediately considered to be in a relationship with them (except for Prom). I don't know if it was a high school thing where you needed to be paired off exclusively if you were going to go on a date, or if that was a small town thing where rumors fly, so it just seemed that way. I wish I would have grabbed a couple friends and told them to get dates for a group thing and then grabbed different dates for the next week. I do remember how I couldn't wait for college and being able to date around a little before settling on one option.

I lived off-campus throughout college so I could room with my older brother. That was cool! As a freshmen I had a few older roommates, but I was game to be included in many things they did, even when they posed the idea of a group date. We had a lot of fun as roommates and on occasion we had invited apartments of girls out for ice cream, so doing a group date together was not that far-fetched.

My roommates actually made it really easy. One of them had gone on a date with a girl who had six roommates. Yeah, that's a lot of girls under one roof. Anyway, he first asked her if she could set up a certain roommate with his direct roommate, and she offered to set up his other roommates too, if he wanted. So my brother and I were given dates too, the only problem is no one ever told my brother and I, or our dates, who was being set up with who. That was an awkward first group date. Firsts for me in dating have often been awkward growing experiences and if I had it all to do over again it would be different. I guess you could say I'm behind the curve of people who started dating in the 1st grade.