Ok, I don't think my 2nd year in the sorority was a good year for greek events that required dates:
October 1997: POP (Pride of Panhellenic - All-Sorority Semi-formal)
I arrange a limo with some of my sisters and so shelled out some extra money so that my date and I could enjoy a limo ride. The venue was right across from a sports bar so my date decided to go in their 1st - we were almost late for the photos... then I proceeded to buy him and drinks after which point he decided to go for a walk around downtown Vancouver and disapeared for 3 hours - he said he went to find a bank machine - hello it doesn't take 3 hours to find a bank machine in d/t vancouver - then if that wasn't bad enough, on the limo ride home my date and another guy in the limo decided to remove all their clothing and my date rolls down the window and moons all the passerbys...
Dec 1997: Christmas Dinner
Every year my sorority holds a christmas dinner during the last week of classes - I asked a good friend of mine (who at the time was a Sigma Chi pledge) to go with me, he said ok but his magister wouldn't let him go, not even for 1/2 an hour... I was totally ticked with this guy for not even letting my friend go for a measley 30 minutes and I gave him a piece of my mind
- that was 4 years ago: that magister has been my boyfriend for the past 31/2 years - and I still bug him about that whole situation
February 1998: DPhiE Formal - the mother of all horrible greek date experiences.
I was all set to go to my 2nd formal; had the dress, the limo, etc. Well 3 days before formal my date backs out - he has a rugby game on the Island and wouldn't make it back in time - I'm sure he had more than 3 days notice about this game. So I have 3 days and I am trying desparately to find a date - but 3 days isn't much notice and doesn't help that there are usually 2 sorority formals going on on the same day. All my GDI friends have made plans for the weekend. It's friday night I'm desparate - I ask this one guy - he can't make it - ok; my friend hooks my up with this guy I know, so I have a date phew. 5:50pm sat, I am suppossed to pick up my date in 10 mins can't get a hold of him, finally get a hold of someone at his fraternity - so and so has had something come up - he's terribly sorry - we have suited up another guy for you: yes those were the exact words we have suited up another guy for you. Now admidst all this rejection I have just been laid off from work this week as well, so I'm completely over the edge now. I get to formal trying to be a good date, but I'm completely pissed off - then who shows up, but one of the guys I had asked the night before - I spent half my formal locked in a bathroom stall - none of my sisters knew what was happening until they realized I was hiding and depressed - which is totally uncharacteristic for me - I guess the silver lining to all this is that they pulled me through it. And here's the funny bit the guy who said he couldn't go with me on the friday and showed up at my formal - I now work with him; boy was he ever uncomfortable.