Do you remember your first formal date? (By formal, I mean you asked her out or were asked out by him.)

How old were you? Where did you go?
The first girl I dated was named Barb. I was 15. I took her to a basketball game.

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I was 24. We went to a steakhouse, the movies, then spent the night at a hotel.

I had been on dates before that but probably not "formal". That was my first one where I asked someone out that I didn't know yet & wasn't already in a relationship with. Our friends set up a barbecue for us to meet each other because they thought we'd hit it off & we did