What it means to go on a date

[TomTougher]

Most people would not call it a date to go with a girlfriend or boyfriend to the school cafeteria together and eat some french fries together but how about this, how is that much different than going to your local McDonalds and eating french fries together? In both cases you're doing about the same thing, its just in different locations.

[Thaliacea]

Date should me called anything where you and your partner are spending time together. It just , as time passes , becomes frequent that it isn't needed to be called date

[Emerald Dream]

Date should me called anything where you and your partner are spending time together. It just , as time passes , becomes frequent that it isn't needed to be called date

Agreed completely.

Most people would not call it a date to go with a girlfriend or boyfriend to the school cafeteria together and eat some french fries together but how about this, how is that much different than going to your local McDonalds and eating french fries together? In both cases you're doing about the same thing, its just in different locations.

I would call going to McDonald's and just eating fries together a "date" as well. It really doesn't matter if you are at a 5 star restaurant or studying together at your home.

I've never been worried about how it's labeled. To me, spending quality time together is considered dating. I just try to make it somewhat exclusive to that one person when I do so.

[TomTougher]

I would call going to McDonald's and just eating fries together a "date" as well. It really doesn't matter if you are at a 5 star restaurant or studying together at your home.

I've never been worried about how it's labeled. To me, spending quality time together is considered dating. I just try to make it somewhat exclusive to that one person when I do so.

So than how about eating lunch together in school at the cafeteria? Is that a date?

[Emerald Dream]

So than how about eating lunch together in school at the cafeteria? Is that a date?

That's all in how you personally define it. I prefer to use "dating" as an overall term for the relationship. Just my own viewpoint.

I don't think there's a right or wrong answer to that, to be honest.

[TomTougher]

That's all in how you personally define it. I prefer to use "dating" as an overall term for the relationship. Just my own viewpoint.

I see, so when you say two people are "dating" you don't necessarily mean it like they're literally going out on a date to the mall, movies, ect. but rather that they're an item. Boyfriend and girlfriend.

[Isabella_]

A date by definition requires planning and agreement as in "setting a date"
Eg. "I'd like to go out with you this Friday night to do x"
Just meeting up at lunch because you both go to the same school isn't a date, meeting up randomly and hanging out isnt a date either

[fairmaiden]

I thought a ''date'' would be going somewhere, idk, out of school? So like at a restaurant, or even McDonalds, I guess.

At my school, people say to their crush ''Will you go out with me?'', when in actual fact they're not planning to even leave the school grounds together; they're just asking them to be their girlfriend. Weird, I know.

[Isabella_]

Yeah it somewhere you've organised to meet and go to

[Meh Guy]

Clearly I'm not most people. I would call anytime spent together, a date. Not even that, I just call it hanging out together... Same as my guy friends, except with a girl

[Failed Algebra]

to me a date is something more formal or agreed upon in advance - it could be McDonalds or going to the beach, but it's more than just finding yourself in the cafeteria with your GF or BF.

[Luminous]

I think a date is anything organized in advance. If you just happen to be in the school cafeteria that's different, I think, because you kind of have to be there. But pretty much anything else where it's the two of you together it's a date.

[TomTougher]

A date by definition requires planning and agreement as in "setting a date"
Eg. "I'd like to go out with you this Friday night to do x"
Just meeting up at lunch because you both go to the same school isn't a date, meeting up randomly and hanging out isnt a date either

So how about planning and going together to a McDonalds down the street, is that a date?

[Isabella_]

Sure, it's just not much of one lol

[Emerald Dream]

The OP is banned. :locked: