Ninja Dates

We know you think that you're clever.
You call a girl up, text her, write on her facebook wall, or say casually in passing, "hey, by the way, some friends and I are going to [insert activity] friday at like 8. Interested?"
The inserted activity could be going to a movie, going bowling, playing games, heading out for ice cream, or something built for groups.
A girl says to herself, "I don't have a date, and this beats hanging out with my roommates, and watching movies," or "I don't want to go on a date with this boy, but this is not a date so I am safe." Maybe she even says "His attractive roommate and best friend will surely be there, and since it's not a date there is no harm in going to see him."

And yet, when eight o'clock rolls around you shows up at her door wearing a polo and three squirts too many of Curve For Men. She feels a little sheepish in a t-shirt, jeans, and a pony tail, but pulls on shoes and heads out.

Once in the car she asks, "So, who else is meeting us there?"
Then the bombshell.

One of two answers, "Oh, it's actually just going to be us tonight."
or (the worse of the two): "Just my roommate Jeff and his girlfriend."

O, ho! So is this a date? At the risk of seeming tactless, she doesn't ask whether or not you're on a date.
That may be her biggest mistake of the evening.

Only when you've entered the movie, bowling alley, or ice cream parlor, and paid can she be confident. She is on a Ninja Date.
This type of date is especially effective for boys who have tried and failed to pick a girl up, are too nervous to ask her on a date, or are completely desperate.

The worst type of Ninja Dates are dates wherein you don't go anywhere that costs money.

Because then, five freaking hours later when she stumbles into her house, tired and confused, and her roommates ask if it was a date, she still don't know for sure.

Porthos