one thing i hate about midwood is that there are no secular bookstores here. on the weekends i often frequent park slope where there is a barnes and noble bookstore. one would think that frum jews do not frequent secular bookstores given the desert of secular bookstores in midwood and dare i say boro park or crown heights. well.... EVERY time i go to the barnes and noble in park slope i am always in good frum company. today was no exception. however today there was a special treat. the frum barnes and noble date. this is a welcome update on the lounge date.
at first i wasnt sure what i was seeing. i saw one very decked out ultra frum bais yaakov type girl sitting by herself at a table at the cafe. a few tables over i saw another very dressed up bais yaakov type girl. eventually i saw their dates sitting with them.
i have always thought that a bookstore is a good site for a frum date. we are the people of the book for heaven's sake!
aside from the dates there were several woman with sheitels and men with yarmulkes reading books at several tables in the cafe.
half the fun of going to the barnes and noble in park slope is having an excuse to frequent the hip park slope. if there was a barnes and noble in midwood i probably wouldn't go to park slope all that often.
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You just said yourself why there's no B&N in Midwood. These people were there for dates or reading, not buying.
The thing is the dates you're describing, as Moshe said, are just looking for a cheap sit-down. I once had a Barnes and Noble date actually browsing books together (and only later going to the adjacent Starbucks). It was fun. The only problem with it was that commenting about the books only served to reveal how different our opinions were! ..it was still enjoyable though..
shlomo-
true, pple are at barnes and noble for a cheap date, but i still think its far better to have a cheap date at barnes and noble than going out for a soda in a hotel lounge . its true that you can look at the books and find you have nothing in common with the other person, but isnt that the point?
My first date with my spouse was at a Barnes & Nobles. Much fun.
Many frum people hang out at the Barnes & Nobles in Pikesville (Baltimore).
David-
cool.
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