A Date Night to No Where

Tom and I had a date night planned for tonight. At first we were going to go to a party up at Lake Norman which is about an hour away. Tom decided that he wasn’t up for the drive so we thought that we would just go out to dinner instead. We usually don’t go uptown but we wanted to do something a little different than usual. We drove uptown, and at first, were very indecisive about where we were going to go. We finally decided to go to the EpiCenter which is a large area of town that has many different restaurants all at the same place. We pulled into the parking deck, found a spot to park and Tom looked into his wallet for his checkcard….not there! He forgot that he had taken it out of his wallet this morning. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring a purse or my wallet either. So, there we were in a parking deck with no way to get out because we had no money and there wasn’t a person in the booth. I kept trying to convince him to pull right behind someone leaving and follow them out of the gate. He wouldn’t do that. Finally, we decided to call a friend that lives near there so we could borrow some money. We had to walk out of the parking deck so that the call would go through, and as we were walking out we saw two women in a car at the gate. We talked to them a moment and they offered to give us six dollars to get out of the garage. We took them up on their offer and finally left to go home so that we could get some money to go to dinner.

We drove home, Tom ran in to get his card from his other shorts, and we were off again. This time we decided to stay closer to home. We picked another restaurant and Tom went to get his check card from his pocket…..wrong card!!! He obviously didn’t look at the card that he took from his other shorts, but just assumed that it was the right one.  Once again, we had no money! I was a little frustrated  because I was starving, but we had to laugh at this all the same.

Needless to say, we headed home again for a second time. By this time, I am starving and all I want to do is go home, eat a huge bowl of cereal and call it a night. The last thing I wanted to do was get back in the car and drive to a third restaurant. So, we got home, paid the sitter for two hours of work, and sent her on her way. I got my bowl of cereal and then drank a glass of wine.  Now it is almost 9:00 and I am ready for bed.

The night didn’t work out as we had planned or hoped for, but Tom and I spent some quality time together, only had to put one kid to bed, and were able to talk and laugh without interruption. I guess that is really what you are hoping to do on a date night. :)  Still a succesfull evening.


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