I agreed to go out with a girl but when I called her to plan a date she said that she has cousins who live out of town that she is going to for Shabbos so maybe next week. A close friend of mine who just got married and was always asking me to come for Shabbos lived in the same city as her cousins so I decided to try to go there for Shabbos.
My friend said that I could come over for the Shabbos day meal, but not sleep there, but he would find someone to put me up.
At the meal he told me of a place nearby to go for the date- it was a mall attached to a hotel, and on the bottom floor of the mall was a food court that empties out after 8:30 P.M. The spot he suggested was under an atrium with some trees behind an elevator that is as private as you can get in a mall. His wife also said that she knew my date from seminary.
I took the girl there but she didn’t feel comfortable in that spot (she didn’t like the music in the background) so we went to the hotel lobby and talked there.
The next day my friend called me and asked why I didn’t go to the spot he suggested. Apparently another friend of ours from high school was also in town for a date and was staying by him. (This guy was very nervous about his first date and didn’t want anyone to know about it, which is why my friend didn’t want me to sleep by him. This guy ate out for the Shabbos day meal so my friend had me over then.) His date was also in seminary together with my date and my friends wife so the charming young couple decided to send us both to the same place at the same time and then they would come check up on us to see how it was going.
The date did not end up working out for us and I highly suspect it didn’t work out for the other couple either. (My friend didn’t tell me which classmate it was but I assume he would have if it ended up working.)
One mistake I ended up making on the date- the girl made a box of home made cookies for me for the long ride home, but I got hungry on the date and ate it there. (I did share it with her though.)