The Most Interesting Question I’ve Ever Been Asked on a First Date
It was something I’d pondered before
To be fair, I suppose some might consider the meeting we’d had over coffee a couple weeks before as a “first date.”
That, though, was more of an informal “Hey, let’s talk before our workdays start.”
That coffee meeting turned into more of a date and lasted more than an hour.
It’s what led me to ask for a real, actual date. To make clear my interest was more than just as well-liked friends who do the same work.
So this — this first date was a lunch at a restaurant neither of us had been to but that she’d mentioned more than once wanting to try.
I texted about an hour before to be sure we were still on.
We were!
I confirmed I’d pick her up and the time.
It took about 15 minutes to get from her place to the restaurant. Polite conversation, mostly work-related, on the way.
We were seated and ordered an appetizer.
Conversation picked up — a particularly challenging situation from the morning meeting I’d just had. A bit about a project she was nearly done with.