Blog 3202 – 08.08.2024

The Lasting Appeal of a Movie and a Meal

Yesterday, my wife and I had a rare treat of going out to see a movie on the big screen and afterwards a meal of mixed fajitas at a long time favorite restaurant. It is something we used to do a lot, not so much over the past few years. We had a wonderful time.

I recall that when considering our first date some thirty-six and a half years ago that I had been so long away from the dating scene that I asked my older wiser supervisor at work where I should take my new love interest on our first date. He suggested a western steak place that had a live band and a dance floor called The Texas Tumbleweed. As it turned out Linda had a previous engagement that Friday evening to attend a wake at her sister’s home for her sister’s best friend’s deceased husband. It was my first wake and we ate and talked and got to know one another’s likes and dislikes. It was a perfect first date. There was even a long deep kiss at the end of it that lead to another and well the rest is history.

Over the years we have seen lots of movies on the big screen and shared many a dining out experience together most without dancing. Famous dancer Fred Astaire reportedly said, that dancing was making love vertically. That I suppose explains why the narrow fundamentalist religions are so against dancing. What a sad repressed lot they are for the most part.

I love my wife and even after thirty-six plus years she still makes my heart dance if my feet are still as clumsy as ever. We both have talked about taking dancing lessons together for years. Whether we ever do remains to be seen, but there is still the lasting appeal of a movie and a meal.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White