A user asks: Would You Judge Your Date By What He Drove?
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- by Nicole P, 13 hours ago
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I still remember my boyfriend and I’s first date. I was still living at home at the time and my mom happened to look out the window just as he was pulling in the driveway to pick me up. “That’s his car?” she said condescendingly. I looked out the window and seen a kind of beat up looking ’93 Mercury Grand Marquis, something I generally would refer to as a “granny car”. I said to my mom “Guess so” and headed out the door to avoid him having to meet her.
Like a perfect gentleman, he walked around and opened the door for me. As he was about to back out, he looked over and asked if that was what I drove, nodding to the brand new SUV I bought the year before. I told him yes and he said that it must have cost a fortune. “Yeah…” I answered, and after a short awkward pause we drove off.
I remember while heading to the movies I was thinking about how I didn’t want to be seen in his car. I honestly don’t know if I would have thought much of it had my mom not said anything about it. But we made it the movies and later to dinner with no embarrassment. We had a great time so I invited him out for drinks later in the week, my treat, and things went from there. Now we’ve been together for 2 1/2 years.
Had I judged him by first impressions — or mainly his car — I would have missed out on an amazing man. I might’ve had the new car, clothes and whatever else I wanted at the time, but he knew how to be financially responsible. He had his own apartment, a car and motorcycle that was paid off, and extra money to save. I, nearly three years later, am STILL paying on that damn SUV. I guess it just goes to show that you can’t always judge a book by its cover, or a guy by his car.
