
Remember that time when I lived in Salt Lake and our singles ward decided to have a dinner date?
They had us all fill out a questionnaire and the bishopric was going to go through and fix us up with whoever they thought would be an appropriate date. "One date for an Eternal Mate" they said.
We had no idea who our date was until we showed up, then, like some kind of cattle show, we all stood in the gym while they called out names. I was nervous but felt bad for the people who's "dates" hadn't come, or were late. Luckily that didn't happen to me. My date was a young buck with dark hair and a black leather jacket. I don't remember his name. So we found our seats, I don't think I knew anyone at my table. My one real friend in the ward was sitting at the table in front of us and she was paired with Leather Jacket's friend.
They made us take pictures, like at a formal, but the props were a veil and a black tophat.
The program was a dating game, or maybe it was like the newlywed game - those participating might have actually been dating and were the obvious choices for playing. One of them looked just like Dr. Cox.
In the end, Leather Jacket spent the evening throwing the little chalky hearts at his friend on the other table.
Ah, memories...
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I SO remember that. I also remember that sometimes Single's Wards are awkward. I'm on assignment to go to all of the family wards in our stake and convince the laurels to come to our single's ward when they graduate. I will not be sharing this story.
We did a sort of similar dating set up thing---and there was a guy in the ward who was barely five foot---cool guy, but the shortest guy I've ever seen. Well, guess who ended up getting hooked up with him?
Yes, me, the tallest girl in the ward. Talk about awkward.
Wow, that is the most blatant thing I've ever heard of.
That's kind of the scariest thing I've ever heard of.
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