We were at Shopwise Festival Mall when a lil brat in one of those kiddie car carts started harassing her way into the cashier line. She was actually getting on the nerves of her nanny, including my special gurl.
SHE: Naku! Ayoko ng ganyang anak.
She could've just let it go.
We paid our stuff and decided to stop for a quick KFC lunch.
While enjoing Meal No. 2, she asked if I was ever in a group date.
ME: Hmm... is that the kind of date you agree to swap partners?
SHE: (Taken aback) Ha? Were you ever...?
ME: No! No! Foursome. That's going out with another couple. (Pauses) Yea. Lots of times before. You?
SHE: Hmm... once.
She said she wasn't comfy going out on a foursome date because the tendency is that two people were bound not to enjoy it anyway.
For instance, if I asked a friend who I haven't met in a long time to go out with us, that friend and I would more likely be catching up with each other leaving out our partners in the dark. They'd probably be lurking, listening to us, bored even.
Soon enough, she pointed two couples sitting at the back. She observed that one girl was having more fun talking to the dude across her. The dude obviously wasn't her partner. Meanwhile,the other two people on that table shifted their heads between them as if they were matching a tennis match.
I think that's pretty insensitive.
I hope I haven't done something like that to my special gurl yet.
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kids should know that...
In some societies, the parents or community propose potential partners, and then allow limited dating to determine whether the parties are suited. During the Middle Ages in Europe, it was traditional for royal families to receive a ship from a princess' fiance upon her betrothal. The ship would be displayed in the courtyard for one month prior to the marriage ceremony, and it is from these courtships that we derive the word courtship. (wikipedia)
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