Nothing spells romance like lying half-dead in the nearest hospital and undergoing some unnecessary medical procedure, so here are some fun alternative date ideas for when that’s not feasible.
Walk in the park
A simple walk in the park can do wonders for any relationship: it’s the classic that your grandfather used when he first met your grandmother. Obviously what you’d really like to be doing is rounding up a group of physicians to perform an unneeded, dangerous medical procedure, but sometimes it just isn’t in the cards.
Pottery class
Don’t have the funds to shell out $25,000 for an appendectomy on your perfectly healthy appendix? Well, no need to worry! The average pottery class is only $15 per person. Now that’s affordable!
Ice cream
Satisfy your sweet tooth with the world’s most romantic dessert. Sure, in a perfect world at least one of you would be hooked up to a heart-lung machine and fighting for life, but short of cardiopulmonary surgery, nothing is cuter than a couple sharing a scoop.
Ice-skating
Sure you may not look as graceful on the ice rink as your doctor does after you’ve tricked her into opening your skull in a last ditch effort to save you from the brain tumor you made up, but why let that ruin your day? Take your beau or lady friend to the rink for some quality time on the ice.
Dinner and a movie
Given that you don’t have the resources to exchange kidneys with your date just for kicks, you might as well grab a bite and catch the latest rom-com.
Have a picnic
Nothing beats eating a good meal outside in the sun, except of course convincing an underpaid surgeon-in-residency to remove your heart and put it back in again.
–CS ’18