Indeed. My current girlfriend is into cars - her favorite is the '69 Stingray. She drives a really clean '93 Camry now, but she wants me to teach her how to drive stick.

 

Dale,
You and I are approximately the same age. Things have changed a whole lot since we were "kids" dating other kids. I don't know if either of us can speak intelligently about dating in this century.

 

I have two teenager sprouts of dating age, one boy and one girl, and for whatever reason they both come to Dad for dating advice.

Funny thing; dating in this day and age seems to be much more akin to what it was like when I was a young adult than the dating scene my younger brother (fourteen years my junior) went through in the early 1990s.

 

Yes, I thought about you having teenaged children and that you must be experiencing dating through their eyes now. But it seems to me that for the most part, kids don't date!! They hang out. They get on a computer or "phone" and talk and talk and talk about nothing. Or play video games, or online games together.
They don't suggest a movie or a meal... go to school functions (how I met my first GF.) They party with their friends and whatever happens, happens. Yes?

Or am I wrong?

 

Both of my kids go "Out" constantly.

 

Ah. But what are trhey doing when they are "out?"

 

I could tell you but then I'd have to waste you.

 

Oh sure. That's what you say now, but I've got you thinking, don't I?

Of course teenagers are always going out. At that age most think they know more than their parents and are exploring their options in the world.

Post #1200, Dale!!