So, I went out with a big group of work-friends a few weeks ago for pizza and beer (I’m on a diet so I had water and a salad like a good little girl) and I tried to talk one of the ladies into going with me to a movie afterwards. She cried off (had papers to grade) and a guy I didn’t know very well said he’d like to go. Since I had no real reason or desire to decline, I went along with it. When we got there, he paid for the movie. Odd, but whatever. The movie was good and we ended up having a 30 minute chat in the parking lot after.
I drove home thinking, Am I crazy or did I just go on a date and not realize it?
Called the girlfriends. All agreed it was iffy. Could be a date, could be just a movie.
Called a guy-friend, Thom.
Me: “Am I crazy or did I just go on a date and not realize it?”
Him: “You got stealth dated.”
Long pause.
Me: “That is a perfect description of what just happened.”
Thom: “That’s stealth dating.”
Called Mad Madam M. It turns out she has her own experiences with stealth dating. Who knew?
Stealth Dating: wave of the future or guys chickening out of actually asking girls out?
(I may need to add a scene about this into Supersize Girl…it could work with the teen hero I have in mind for the book)
