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May 2009

25 Date Ideas from XKCD

Here is an old list of date ideas from the XKCD website for when you can't think of anything to do. Emily and I have already done a good number of them.

  1. Pretend you've never met, then loudly try out lame pickup lines in a swanky bar. Act like they worked.
  2. Go on a walking journey and every fifteen feet draw a chalk arrow in the direction you're going. At the end of the trip, leave a big pile of chalk.
  3. Create photo evidence suggesting that you went on an adventure that didn't really happen.
  4. Go for a drive. You can only make right-hand turns. When you finally get stuck, turn around and then you can only make left-hand turns. Repeat until you find something interesting. Take pictures along the way!
  5. Build forts out of furniture and blankets, and wage war with paper airplanes.
  6. Go to a major chain bookstore, and leave notes to future readers in copies of your favorite books
  7. Write a piece of fiction together. Outside at a cafe. Ask strangers when you get stuck.
  8. Try and visit as many people as you can in one night, and turn as many things inside their apartment upside down as you can, without them noticing.
  9. Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever. Have an unabashed good time!
  10. Hide and seek in the park
  11. Go around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts with equations inside on random things
  12. Drive somewhere unknown and have dinner in a city you've never been to. With fake names.
  13. Go for a drive with the passenger blindfolded, choosing directions at random. see where you end up
  14. Dress up as pirates, commandeer shopping carts, and have a war upon the high seas.. er, parking lot.
  15. Go on a search for as many good climbing trees as possible, climb as high as you both can in all of them, compile photo evidence
  16. Rent a movie you've never seen before. Set on mute and improvise dialogue.
  17. Dress up as pirates and go parrot shopping at local pet stores
  18. Go to the airport, get the cheapest, soonest departing flight to anywhere when you show up, and stay there for a weekend.
  19. Walk around a city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras
  20. In the middle of the night, drive to the beach, so you arrive just as the sun is rising. Have a breakfast picnic, then fall asleep together. Bring a sun umbrella.
  21. Dress up as superheros and stop at least one petty crime "ie. jaywalking, littering...."
  22. Go to a minor league baseball game under the stars. Tell each other stories about how bad you are at athletics. Randomly cheer for both teams. Eat lots of Cracker Jack.
  23. With camera and pair of boots, make photolog of a day in the life of the invisible man.
  24. Walk around the city all night and find a place to eat breakfast at dawn
  25. Go to a restaurant and convince the cook to create something completely new for you.

Comments

25 DATE IDEAS

Very original, not the usual stuff that everyone just comes up with. I particularly like Nos. 4 and 15. Good job...err, even for 2009!

I'm loving the

I'm loving the drive-to-the-beach one, awesome idea :D

Six

I have tried number six solo, but with a date, I can make happen...

Dating

Dating

Discourse Decree # 33

I would ask that the visitors of this site kindly refrain from posting one word comments which add no insight to the overall discussion.

You should post idea's 26

You should post idea's 26 thru 50, because well, the 1st 25 are pretty awesome. I'm also not very original when it comes to date ideas. (...or usernames)

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