An unforgettable date (?)

What comes in your mind when asked about unforgettable date?

Having a candlelight dinner? enjoying sunset on the beach? Watching romantic movie? Chat under starry sky? Well it could be vary depending on what kind of date you’ve been into, but most likely its about special places or occasion right? its about looking good and picking the “most suitable” place to spend the time together, just you and your loved one.. In other case there are dates that actually didn’t meant to be special, probably just another night or weekend to spend together, but then they turn out to be unforgettable ones.

Probably this is what happen in my case, one day when I arrived in Jakarta, 2 best friends picked me up at the airport. We were on our way to meet other friends when the car machines started to heat up and burned so we have to pullover and park the car in one of the building parking lot around Sudirman. The radiator was overheated and there were leakage on the pipe. Hopeless, we the decided to take a cab continuing our way. The story continue, we meet up, have a delicious late-lunch and nice chit-chat in a restaurant somewhere around Thamrin, after that everyone had to go and deal with their business. It was the two of us left, my friend who own the car and I, that’s because we already planned to spend the rest of the day together..

We need to get the car fixed, but there was no way to bring it anywhere with that condition. It needed an emergency handling. So we decided to find the equipments, and so we called it a “date”. We were wearing t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, walked hand in hand along the road (I mean literally walking, and it was pretty far), got in and out of malls trying to find car-maintenance-section, talked bout random things and laughed over it, sweating all over and then it started to drizzle again. Luckily by that time we already got what we need, then it’s the time to go back to the parking lot, this time by cab because its pretty far from where we were at that time. It was fun, so much fun. Unusual, uncommon, unlike what a normal couple would do on a date, but anyway we aren’t normal ones.

Now here comes the second part, the parking lot turned into our garage, he dealt with the machine thingy and me holding the flashlight, it took us sometimes to deal with it, then we still had to wait for some moment to see if its working. During the time, we talked over cigarette and bottles of water, staring at the sky where you can actually see lights from the buildings clearer than the stars, it was half moon at that time. It was not a decent place at all, I mean you can check a parking lot at night, but still we really enjoyed that moment. Still remember we talked about almost anything, our serious-mode on and off, hence we laughed a lot and enjoyed the time together. At that time he said sorry, because a date is supposed to be in a fine restaurant, enjoying good foods and talk over wine, but then we thought that it was only gonna be an ordinary one, the more awkward the situation we’re in, the more unforgettable it would be, so be it. Anyway, its true, even when we’re miles away apart, we still remember and talk about that very moment a lot.

Now as I write this piece, somehow I still miss him and our date(?)


"after a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh"
Mr.Big - Sex and The City