Wait, what?
So a few weeks ago, I went out on a couple of dates with a girl (ended up not working out - not a big deal), and yesterday, some other friends of mine asked what was up with the situation. I said there isn't one. They said "When did you break up?"
Wait, what?
Apparently, when I said I "asked a girl out" and subsequently "went out with her," I meant that were were "together." Is that still what those expressions mean?
So I explained to these friends that "asking out" literally means asking out, as in on a date. Going out means going out on that date. For once you get past 6th grade, you don't say "Will you go out with me?" to mean "Will you be my girlfriend?" They disagreed completely. "How do you know what you are then?" they asked. "You don't," I said, "and that's what makes it exciting!"
Since, however, they seemed so flabbergasted as to my beliefs on the matter, I thought maybe I was, in fact, wrong. So I'm putting the issue to the audience. Do you really start a relationship by saying "Will you go out with me?" Please tell me no...
posted by John @ 11:04 PM
4 Comments:
excuse moi?!
NO! that's ridiculous.....
no sensible person in the 21st century says "will you be my girlfiend/boyfriend?" i mean.... that's so baby boomer...our parents did that. example: At the sock-hop in her poodle skirt, jane dances with dick who, with extreme trepidation, asks jane to "go steady" with him which means they hold hands in the hallway at school and "neck" in dick's t-bird at the drive-in.
anyway.... good luck with all of that.
<3
kathryn
John, my dear friend. I remind you of a discussion that took place several years ago between the two of us and a certain third party who shall remain unnamed. Now, the discussion was whether or not fried strips of chicken breasts were to be officially called "chicken tenders" or... "chicken 'fingers'". We determined against this third party that after you reach a certain age, your vocabulary, as well as the image the word implies, changes. For example, chicken fingers would called so because of their resemblance to fingers (albeit a fanciful resemblance, however, I digress for we were just wee children). But now we know better, and so, they are chicken tenders.
I believe I've made my point.
When I was in 6th grade, one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go out with a boy who had a crush on me. I said I don't care. So we "went out" for about an hour. Until I told another friend I wanted to break up with him because everyone was teasing me.
In college (and I suspect, the real world), there's dating, and there's exclusive dating. Exclusive dating (boyfriend/girlfriend, if you will) just kind of happens after some dating. And I think there has to be some kind of mutual agreement between the two parties in question.
Ah yes, Alexis, but the real question is: what do you call it? Don't you know that everything in life MUST be labeled? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT!
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