"August 21, 1978"
My friend and I had been to football practice and we decided to run by Wendy’s for their triple cheeseburger, fries, and a Frosty.
I had worked during the summer remodeling a house, helping to turn a two-story house into a three-apartment house. I had saved up a bit and it was two weeks before school started, football practice had begun, and the summer was about to be over.
I flirted with the girl in the drive-through and got a date set for the next day. My friend wanted a date too, so I asked her if she had a friend. She introduced her friend to my friend, and we all decided to meet up the next day and go see the movie, “Grease” that was just coming out.
The next day, my friend hurt himself at football practice and had to bail out of the date. I went by Wendy’s to explain, but the gal I was to go out with had burned herself at work and couldn’t go out either. I asked her if her friend still wanted to go and we ended up going out to the movie that night, August 21, 1978.
We went out several times that week, last chance before school and all. By the third date or so, I had come to realize that she was the first girl in my dream, “The Room”.
We dated for a year but then she wanted to break up. So, we went on one last date August 21, 1979, dating a year and a day.