July 7th 2004 marked the very first official date. When I say “official” though, I mean a date where I wasn’t running around with a dude 4 years older than me behind my father’s back.

For your information at that time I was 17 years old and my love was 21. Yeah I know, It’s literally Dateline NBC’s “How to Catch a Predator” status.

Anyway, being our first date that meant the man had to meet my very traditional, conservative, and worst of all, Filipino father. For those of you who have dated a Filipino girl, I bet all of you out there are all groaning and nodding knowing what it is like to deal with that. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to know, there are two opinions to dating a Filipino girl. 1.) you date without the parents knowing, meaning having to lie and sneak around or 2.) date, with the parents knowing BUT dating with a shitload of limitations! And when I say shitload, I mean A SHIT LOAD. In other words, you might as well go back to option 1.

We tried option 1 but that got hard after awhile, considering I had to make sure I had all lies in order, and besides I couldn’t keep lying to my parents, my Catholic guilt was starting to kick in.

So imagine, an hour before my boyfriend was suppose to pick me up, I told my father that this “boy” that I was “talking to” was actually 21 years old. All I remember was a blur of Filipino words with a couple of F-bombs included, I guess for good measure.

To make a long story short, my father wanted to rip this kid a new one, considering he threatened to put his ass in jail if anything were to happen to me. So to assure my father that he was a “normal” joe (that happened to be into 17 year olds), he asked my father to look at his website.

Ok honestly, who asks a temperamental dad at the brink of murdering someone if he wants to see his website? I was literally watching the poor guy dig himself into a hole. A website? He made himself sound like he was not just a predator, but an Internet predator!

As expected my father swiftly said no and reluctantly let us on our way.

Remember how I just wanted to just hook up with this guy? Well, at that point I didn’t really know much about him, for the most part. All I knew was that he was really into computers. Well that night, I would find out what kind of guy he really was like and let’s just say it involved farts and a lot of tears.

One Response to “Tales of Geek Dating: Before WoW came along, there was the first date”

1. jamie says:

   August 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

   LOL, really cute. You should’ve just told your dad that Nelson was your age! He still looks like he’s 15.

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