The more you try to act a certain way, the more awkward you'll come off. Just act natural. If she likes you, as you say, then you're already doing something right. Go with what feels right, there's a certain flow you need to pick up on, you should be able to tell when you're doing a good job. Basically, act naturally. That's all you have to do.
If you think too much about it, or worry a lot, or consider each action you're going to be making under a microscope, things will turn out badly just because you won't be acting naturally. You just need to have some confidence, or at least fake the confidence for now. After a while the confidence will come naturally and you won't have any idea what you were so worried about.
Bring cash like twice as much as you intended to spend for yourself because your paying for everything bro, but I think you knew that.
Hopefully you picked a theaters thats apart/attached to a mall or something.
These are both good tips for a successful date. I'd say bring more than twice the cash because you never know what kind of opportunities might present themselves. You don't want to be in a position where you're thinking, "Damn, I wish I had just brought a little more money with me so we could do X." You also don't want to have to use an ATM during the date.
By the way, a good topic to casually mention at some point is something regarding the car situation. You know, like, something to indicate you won't be needing your friend to drive you around forever, that you'll have your own license and car sometime in the foreseeable future. It's not something you want to force into the conversation, but if you have the chance then it certainly won't hurt your cause.
You also want to consider getting on the fast track to actually having a license and car of your own. You need to get a permit. You're getting to an age where not being able to drive will start seriously affecting your ability to date. At some point it will just become too much of an inconvenience for one of the people involved (either her or the driver).
When you ask her to go, you want to try to do it casually like it's not a big deal. Work that into the conversation however you can. Whatever you do, don't act awkwardly or shy while you're asking her, get all of that out of your system before you approach her. No stammering, no stalling, once you're face to face with her you need to just ask her casually like it's not a big deal. "Hey, what do you think about catching a movie this weekend? Let's say Saturday." Something like that, just be nonchalant.
Edit: Just want to reiterate that the number one thing you can do wrong is acting like you're trying too hard. You really just need to act natural, be yourself. Don't scrutinize your actions too much. You don't want to seem desperate to impress her.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 31 2010, 3:17 am by Azrael.Wrath.
