Date Story

Something we enjoy as a couple - although honestly it's been a while since we've done it - is dressing up extra fancy to go on a date. Our idea of fancy dressing usually consists of costume jewelry and other gaudy apparel, usually found at a thrift store. We enjoy it the most when we go on a fancy dress-up date to a place that is not notoriously fancy. Example of places we've gone dressed to the nines: high school play performance, Zupas, dollar movie theater. 

This makes a fun and cheap date. Part of the fun is people calling us "sir" and "ma'am" (which is not that common in our part of the USA), the confused looks by other customers, and the assumption that we're going to Prom (we've been asked any time of the year). 

One time, our ostentatious dress paid off. 

We went on a date one Friday evening. Of course, we rummaged through our dress up clothes and found some glorious attire:  I wore a blue sparkly dress, white gloves, large blue clip-on earrings, and a wide, obviously fake diamond necklace. Aaron wore a black French cuff shirt with classy cuff links, a silver vest, a blue tie, and shiny black tuxedo shoes. 

We went to Red Robin for dinner (because we had a coupon). We drew some attention as we made our way to our table. We ordered our food - keeping on the cheaper side of things. We ordered the smaller, less fancy burgers and ordered water to drink. We had a great time, ate delicious bottomless fries, and generally enjoyed each other's company. When we finished, Aaron asked for our check. 

That is when the waitress said that an anonymous customer had paid for our meal!

We immediately scanned the room for familiar faces. We saw no one we knew. Who would be so generous? Was it a personal friend or an amused stranger? 

 We never found out which customer covered our tab. We will probably never know.