New ways to get a date
Dinner and a movie. Yahtzee and Bingo. It seems as if, at one time or another, everyone looks for a way to get out of the clichéd date rut and do something crazy. USU students are no exception. Some students will try anything for a date, to ask for a date or on a date.
Jen Chapman, a freshman majoring in theater said she went on a group date with her friends once where they asked the guys to bring a potluck dish. What they didn’t tell them was what to bring, or what they were going to do with it.
“We actually had a food fight with it. It was pretty messy,” Chapman said.
Another student at USU, who wants to remain anonymous, said he was trying to find a good way to ask a girl out. He decided to take the hard way.
“First I borrowed a Pita Pit shirt from one of my friends that worked there and gathered up all of the coupons my roomies and I had acquired and pretended I was a “Pita Pit Man.”
He went to her house pretending to pass out coupons to her, he said. She wasn’t there, but he went back to ask her out later.
“I think she had it all figured out. One of the last things she said to me before I left was, ‘Didn’t your friend just call my roommate to find out where I live?'” the student, a sophomore majoring in business, said.
Robert Bowles, an undeclared sophomore, said he took a chance one night when he was out with his friends.
“My friends and I were all out to celebrate a birthday. We went to dinner and we had a lot of fun. Our waitress was way cute and fun, so I thought ‘I am going to leave my number on a napkin along with the tip,’ something you see in movies. So I did,” Bowles said.
On the way out, he said he told the waitress not to lose the tip. Then the next week he said she sent him a text message and they ended up going on a date.
One night Todd Wilkerson, an undeclared freshman said he and some friends wanted to make dinner one night for a date.
“First, we split up dinner into three parts – one couple was in charge of the salad, another was in charge of the main dish, and another the dessert,” Wilkerson said.
But there were a few rules he said. They could only use money to get the food as a last resort. They had to go around to the neighbors and ask for the ingredients, and they could only get one ingredient per house.
“We all met up and shared the dinner at a Haunted House,” Wilkerson said. “It was a lot of fun.”
Margo Farnsworth, a freshman majoring in business, said she really liked a guy once so she decided to drive by and see if he was at work.
“As I was looking, a cat ran in front of me, so I slammed on the breaks to try not to hit it. At first I didn’t think he was there, but then I realized he was just getting out of the work truck as I slammed on the breaks,” Farnsworth said.
She said he knew she hit the cat, but didn’t know if it was dead or not.
“I was not going to stick around to find out,” she said. “I drove home and just wanted to cry. I was in shock that I hit a cat and devastated that he had seen me.”
A few minutes later she got a phone call from the guy, she said.
“[He called] to tell me that he thought he saw me drive by a few minutes ago. I had hit his boss’s daughter’s cat. He wanted to know if I cared to know the cat’s name.”
She said he asked her out anyway, but for their date they had a funeral for the cat.
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