My sister Sarah has an ongoing thing at her church, where they ask visiting speakers “Is coffee a date?” (You too can have that much fun if you move to Wodonga.) In other words, if you take a girl out for coffee at a café somewhere, does this constitute a date, or does a date have to be more involved, such as dinner and movie?
Hmmm. Let me ponder this question for a sec.
Sarah, when telling me about this, laughed and said “Of course coffee isn’t a date!” But then when a local bloke asked her for coffee, she refused. Not her type, apparently. Huh?
I have, in the recent past, had a dinner and movie evening with a girl. Was it a date? Certainly didn’t feel like one. On another occasion, I took a girl out for coffee and it definitely felt like a date.
But is it a date when one of the two thinks it is, and the other does not? Or is anything a date, so long as there is a guy and a girl involved?
Enquiring minds want to know.
WANT MORE?: The morbidly curious can read more about my love life at Laughter and romantic false starts and Girl confessions.
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March 22, 2007 at 7:26 am
Pete Aldin
Does Wikipedia have an entry on this? That would settle the issue once and for all.
March 22, 2007 at 7:41 am
Markk
According to Wikipedia, coffee is a date!
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_%28activity%29
March 22, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Pete Aldin
Woo hoo we’ve solved it!
March 22, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Peter
Coffee is evil.
March 23, 2007 at 4:00 am
Markk
Peter, coffee is Good, and you need to repent of insulting the sacred beans.
March 23, 2007 at 7:01 am
Pete Aldin
Amen, good Peter. If Jesus was hanging out with his Disciples in 2007 in South-eastern Melbourne, He’d be frequenting many of the fine coffee emporiums that Markk has reviewed for us and imbibing of the bean.
March 23, 2007 at 7:02 am
Pete Aldin
I mean, “amen good Markk!” - see? I haven’t had my coffee yet and I am confused. It does us good.
March 23, 2007 at 7:12 am
Markk
We could also add that Jesus would order his coffee piping hot, because it is as the Good Book says, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Rev 3:16
March 23, 2007 at 12:58 pm
SaRz
Hi. My name is Sarah.
And I hate coffee.
March 23, 2007 at 1:03 pm
SaRz
^ To avoid confusement for readers - not sister Sarah.
March 23, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Pete Aldin
Sarah, you hate coffee, you love cats. Do you have any redeeming features at all???
March 23, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Markk
Sarah needs reprogramming …
March 24, 2007 at 12:11 am
SaRz
Reprogramming? What am I, some kind of robot?
Why all my features are redeeming - wit, charm, good looks, intelligence, honesty, integrity, sweet tempered, charisma…
And let’s not forget:
Modesty.
March 24, 2007 at 9:22 am
Markk
Sarah has wit, charm, good looks, intelligence, charisma.
She also loves cats and hates coffee.
She also claims to NOT be the other Sarah, without providing evidence.
Hmmm …
March 24, 2007 at 12:53 pm
SaRz
I’ve provided you with my e-mail address, you nutcase =p
March 24, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Guido Nutsopoulos
a dates not a date till there is any action.!!!!!
March 25, 2007 at 8:12 am
Pete Aldin
Coffee IS action!
March 25, 2007 at 10:15 am
mUnchKin
coffee is good. beer is better.
But i thought prty much ANYthing can be considered a ‘date’ nowadays and not jst between boy and girl either (hello! heard of lesbians? LoL) =)
March 26, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Markk
“prty much ANYthing can be considered a ‘date’ nowadays ”
Good point. I think for my next date, I’ll suggest mowing the lawn. I’ll let you know how that goes.
March 29, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Robert Hruzek
No, Markk, this is a date!
March 30, 2007 at 11:47 am
Markk
Er, yep. Moving right along …
March 30, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Markk
This is probably a bad time to bring up the Australian slang definition for “date” so I’ll let Wikipedia do it for me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date
May 24, 2007 at 11:27 am
Sarah (the sister)
What I actually said was - in melbourne, coffee is almost definitely not a date. In wodonga, coffee is almost definitely a date.
May 24, 2007 at 5:55 pm
markk
Ah yes, context. Context, shmontext, I say. If I say you said something, it applies universally!