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November 05, 2006
That's Not a Date
"Aunt Jen, I cannot BELIEVE that you are still in your pajamas at nine o'clock in the afternoon." **
I know, it's pretty silly, but I do have a good reason. I have a date tonight and I wanted to take a shower in the afternoon so that I would be especially clean for our dinner.
"What are you going to do on your date?"
We're just going to dinner.
"That's not a date."
Why not?
"A date is when you go for a walk. Or you go DANCING. Are you going dancing?"
Nope, just to dinner.
"Well, that's not a date."
What is it then?
"Well...it's not a PERSONAL date."
So what is it?
"Geez, Aunt Jen, it's just dinner!"
** Note to reader: It was really 2 p.m., but I will defend to my dying breath the right to wear flannel pajama bottoms and a sweatshirt ALL Saturday afternoon if I so choose.
[And a very nice dinner it was. In fact, it was delightful. I mean, it wasn't a PERSONAL date--like, with dancing--but I do believe I might see this young man again sometime soon.]
Comments
WEAR THEM??? I've gone grocery shopping in mine!!! They are the best thing to wear!!!
Posted by: Anne at November 6, 2006 07:58 AM
I have to respectfully disagree with Janie, in that I have to vote that a very nice dinner can *definitely* be a date. Although it does make me giggle to think of R taking your sister out on "dancing" dates. I would actually rank a dinner date as *more* of a date than just seeing a movie. In fact I think skipping a movie intended to be seen post-dinner because conversation over dinner is so good would be a very successful date. If Janie got too persistent on this point, I would have to refer her to the very entertaining "Date Lab" series in the Washington Post, which are all dinner dates, albeit not all good ones :)
Also, I *love* living in my flannel pajama bottoms!
Posted by: Red at November 6, 2006 08:33 PM
