It is always good to go on a date. But many people just do the same date over and over again.
Why would you always go to a movie and dinner? There’s really nothing you can do as a couple when you are in a movie. Everyone is trying to shush you. Or you might miss the best scene if you are having a conversation about your kids.
Or you just go to a restaurant. And you always go to the Outback, don’t you? How many times can you have the same sirloin and loaded baked potato?
How many of you have taken your girl on a date, and you hook up with all your buddies, and you leave her alone?
Why don’t you go on a date where you get to act like a kid instead of your real age? Get to know your inner child again. Learn to have fun and dispense all worries for a couple of hours?
Here are some ideas you should try to have true fun:
1. Go to an arcade – take two rolls of quarters, and have a blast. Maybe have a competition between the two of you to see who gets the higher score? Just remember it is all in good fun.
2. Go to a fair or carnival. Try to win the biggest stuffed animal. Go in the Tunnel of Love and get a little smoochy.
3. Are you up to roller blading or ice skating? You might want to try this on a night when the kids aren’t out in force, if you don’t know how, or tend to be clumsy like me.
4. Take a beginning cooking course as a couple. Or maybe some kind of craft course through an arts and crafts store or home improvement store, especially something with woodworking or staining, for the guys.
5. Go to the mall. Go into each store, and try to figure out what the other person would want for themselves. Before you leave each store, show your “gift” that you would buy, and find out if you were right. Keep a running total to see who came out on top.
6. Play tourist for a day. Both call in sick, or schedule a day off. If you do call in sick, just make sure you go nowhere near either office or any place where your co-workers may hang out at lunch or after work for a drink. Go to the nearest big city and act like you’ve never been there. Maybe you haven’t. Take pictures like crazy, seeing who came up with the most creative, the prettiest, or the most unusual snapshot of total strangers.
7. In the winter, have a snowman building contest. Have a snowball fight, just don’t hit your partner in the face, and don’t put any rocks in the middle of the ball.
8. In the summer, go to the beach and a kid’s playground and build sand castles. I’ll bet you don’t remember how to do that, do you?
9. What did you love to do as a kid? Play games? Play football? Bike riding? Anything? Go do it!
10. I know I told you that movies aren’t a great idea for getting close, but I am changing my mind. Find out if your town has ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’. It is a cult classic that has been around since the seventies, and yes, it is still played in theaters around the country, usually on the weekends at a midnight show.
Take any or all of the following list: some uncooked rice, newspaper, flashlight or glow sticks (be careful to abide the theater rules), a small squirt gun, rubber gloves, party noise maker, confetti, toilet paper, unbuttered toast, party hat, bell, old playing cards. Call the theater to see if any of these items (especially the water guns and confetti are not allowed). If you’ve seen it before, you know what to do. If you are a Rocky virgin, you’ll figure it out soon enough. Just remember, this is a stupid story from the seventies, but it is so stupid, it is fun.
Do something on your next date that makes you feel like a kid again.
This is Miss Lare, signing off. Have a great day, Las Vegas, and remember, it’s not always the big actions that matter. The little actions embody love, too.