Your first date with your OH

[Daisy]

Several of you have told us how you met your OH (or OHs), so how about telling us your memories of your first date?

[Enfys]

Oh my goodness...so long ago. We went to the cinema, saw The Fall of the Roman Empire - on the new wide screen. It was packed and the only seats left were right at the front. Spent the whole time looking up and twisting my head from side to side to see the action! I had an awful crick in my neck. But we did laugh about it afterwards and went on a second date.

I also remember my mother commenting, after he’d picked me up from home, that she thought he was too young for me! I was almost 21 and he was 23....she thought he was only about 17. He always did look young for his age 😀

[Daisy]

Enfys - it sounds as though you watched the film - but right on the front row you didn't have much choice!

[Enfys]

I don’t know what you mean!!! 💏☺️

[Daisy]

Hahaha, Enfys, I was thinking about eating your popcorn.

[Grauntie Mag]

I can't remember where we went for a first date but I do remember seeing the sun rise over Whitstable after the party!!

[Enfys]

Yeah, right 😀 🍿

(to Daisy)

[Plantaholic]

First date was a meal in a restraunt at Runnymead (where the Magna Carta was signed), very posh, problem was I had already had my dinner.

[Mimi]

First date with OH didn’t happen, I was stood up but to be fair he had an accident at work , well NOT technically at work, it was during lunch break.
He was playing football when he injured himself and had to go to hospital. This was the days before mobile phones , we didn’t even have a home phone then so he wasn’t able to let me know what had happened. !
On our second attempt at ‘first date’ we went to the pictures.

[Nannycuddles]

I met my OH at the Samson and Hurclues I Norwich. We had a coach trip to Norwich from Kings Lynn to go Christmas shopping and a night out at the dance hall. It was near the end of the evening and one of our male work mates had had a few too many me and another one of the girls was taking turns dancing with him and spinning him around, my OH came over and asked me if I would like to dance, I looked at him with my nose screwed up and said all right them. At the end of the evening we arranged to met again in the Samson the following weekend.
And that was 43 years ago, we have been married for 40 years.

[Nanto2girls]

Our first date was to the cinema. The film was The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb.

Very romantic.

[Qwerty]

I can't remember where we went for a first date but I do remember seeing the sun rise over Whitstable after the party!!

😱 shocked GM

[Grauntie Mag]

We were innocent qwerty, honest.....😆

[ZIZI]

Plant was that the Runnymead hotel??

Husband and I had known each other for a couple of years before we finally went out on a date, well that is we planned to go out on a date. We were to meet in a pub, The Bell. Trouble is there was the Railway Bell at one end of Hampton Village and The Bell (known locally as the Bell on the river) at the other end. He was in one and I was in the other. I lived just by the village at the time so knew a shortcut to the Railway Bell and decided to go and see if he was in there, in the meantime he was walking down the high street to the pub I had just left so we missed each other. About an hour later I was in the pub next door but one to my house and he came in. We had said we would have a date without everyone knowing as we were well known in the pub so we couldn’t discuss. He phoned me the following day at work and we made another attempt and this time it worked except our cover got blown when the village policeman came in and blabbed all over our local!!

[Daisy]

We had several non-events for our first few dates. I lived in a village about 15 miles out of town, with a poor bus service, so if I went out in the evening I had to make sure I could get a lift home (couldn't afford a taxi and although I could drive I couldn't afford a car either.)

OH phoned me two or three times but each time he had to phone back and say his car was still off the road (and, yes, it was genuine, later on it broke down on me more than once!) Then on about the 4th time we were going to a barbecue at Trentham Gardens and his landlady offered to lend him her car. By this time he was late, and went to the wrong house. When he asked for Daisy a tall blonde girl came to the door. OH was very confused, so he said "Daisy B?" "Oh no", she said, "Daisy B lives across the road, but she's gone out tonight." Aggghhhh! Anyway OH thought he'd call just in case, and there I was, still in the house, waiting for him! We never did get to the BBQ because it poured with rain, and decided we'd go bowling instead - but the place was packed and we had to wait so long for a lane that we gave up!

We got married 11 months later.