Item Detail
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First Date from Bad to Worse
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2/15/2017
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Provo, Utah
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Male
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Texas
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Midwest
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20
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Brother
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White
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LDS
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Aidan is a\rfreshman at Brigham Young University. He served a mission for the LDS church in the Alpine German-speaking Mission, spending most of his time in Austria.
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Aidan is my brother. We were walking home from work and I was describing my folklore class to him as well as the project. He was interested in contributing and told me he had heard a pretty good story that I could use. I had actually heard this story several times before, but with minor variations each time. I felt embarrassed on behalf of the girl involved, but it is also a funny story. My brother is very expressive when he tells stories, using his hands and facial expressions to make things funnier. We both laughed as he told the story.
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Missionary service for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints is voluntary and lasts two years for boys, 18 months for girls. Because BYU has a heavy LDS population, there is often a fair\rpercentage of BYU students in foreign missions. Zone leaders are missionaries who are in charge of training the missionaries within a certain geographical area.
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First date, awkward, accident, injury, marriage, funny
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The story was recorded and later transcribed. The words um and uh were edited out, as well as a few ands.\r\rText: So I'm telling a story about Josh and Anna. Those are fake names, but Josh asked Anna on a date. It was a blind date, they didn't know each other, they got set up. But he calls her when he gets her number and asks her out, and takes her out on a Friday night. You know, they do just a normal date activity. They go to dinner, and it's going good. He was just planning on doing dinner and then taking her home, but because it was going so well he decides to take her out for ice cream. So they go out for ice cream and it's still going good, they're going on like three hours plus, right now. Still going good, she really likes him, he really likes her, they're really hitting it off. During the course of the conversation, he'd been telling her about this apartment that he'd been remodeling. He decided that an easy way for him to extend the date would be for him to show her his apartment. So he's driving her home and he asks on the way, "hey, do you want\rto go see my apartment?" And she says, "sure." They get there, and this entire time she's been dying, holding her bladder, because sometimes you know girls are a little weird and they feel embarrassed to go to the bathroom on a date. She's just been holding it in, but she is really excited to be spending time with this guy she really likes. So they get into his apartment that he's been remodeling, and he shows her this little closet thing that he'd been making with its own sink. He'd run all the pipes there for a washer and dryer, and he'd done all the electrical and everything himself. He was telling her the process and showing it to her, and she concocted a very clever way to go to the bathroom without actually telling him that she needed to go pee. So she says, "Hey John, can I wash my hands?" And he says, "yea sure! Here's some soap, you can use this sink right here in this closet that I made. And while you're doing that, I'm going to go\ruse the bathroom." And so he walks into the other room to go use the bathroom, and as soon as he leaves, she is shaking in her boots, sweating, freaking out because she has to pee. It was such an emergency – and her bladder was about to explode – that she climbed into the sink, dropped her pants down, pulled the closet door shut and started peeing in the sink. Anyway, she ends up accidently slipping on her pee in the sink, hitting her head on the counter – which knocks her out – and falling to the floor. So John comes out of the bathroom and he walks in the room and he doesn't see her. He goes over to the closet and the door is kind of propped open a little bit. He opens it and she is there, unconscious with blood coming off her head, with her pants down, sitting in her own pee. He freaked out and slammed the door shut on her and then calls his sister, and is on the phone hysterically, saying "I don't know what to do! My date is unconscious on the floor with\rthe pants down, blood, and- help!" And so his sister comes over and cleans her up, wakes her up, and then they end up taking her home. She is so embarrassed, she had no intention of ever speaking with him again because she was so deathly embarrassed. But, somehow, he found it in himself to forgive her, and he asked her on a second date – to have dinner with his parents. She decided that she really liked him. She was so embarrassed, but she's going to make up for the bad experience. So she went out and bought a new outfit, new clothes, looked really pretty, went the whole- hit it with the kitchen sink, makeup and hair, you know – the works. They had dinner with the parents, she's being all bubbly and friendly and happy and energetic and everything. Anyway, after dinner they go into the living room as a family. She sees a little bean-bag, and because she's being all bubbly she says "Oh look, a bean-bag!" and she jumps on it. This bean-bag actually was an old\rfamily dog that was probably fifteen years old, with a blanket over it – which she killed. And so, how does the story end? A period of time down the road, they end up getting married. The end. I heard this story from one of the zone leaders on the mission. He heard it from one of his sisters.
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Samantha
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Mourik
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Female
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23
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Engl 392
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Eric Eliason