Top Ten: Worst Valentine’s Day dates

Jesse Fernandez

There are countless resources for advice about where to take your date on Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately there are very few places to go for information on an equally important topic: where not to take her. Thankfully and finally, that information is provided here. These are the top ten worst date locations on Valentine’s Day.

10) Denny’s, but not the good one

Maybe Denny’s gets a much worse rap than it deserves. But this isn’t even the good Denny’s. This is the Denny’s with not enough toilet paper in the bathroom and gum under the table.

“Denny’s is a nice place to go late at night or early in the morning — with friends,” Tom Rasmussen, a senior photography major, said. “I just don’t think Denny’s would be a good place to go to for Valentine’s Day — period.”

However, the Far Out Fruit Medley is good. Regan Steedman, a freshman pre-communications major, said, “I’d think it’s sweet. At least he’s taking me out.”

9) The Middle of Nowhere

On Valentine’s Day, a long, creepy drive to an undisclosed location is just what you need to make your date wonder if you really are the safe person she thought you were.

Annelisa Jorgensen, a senior criminal justice major, said, “I’d be confused. If we went to a desert, I’d be like, ‘What’s he gonna do?'”

Directions: Drive east.

8) Ironforge (World of Warcraft)

World of Warcraft-related gifts are generally frowned upon in the area of romance, and taking a Valentine’s date into the World of Warcraft to the awe-inspiring, dwarven city of Ironforge, located deep within the snow-covered mountaintops of Dun Morogh, probably won’t have quite the romantic impact one might imagine.

“I would be really bored. He would need to write me an apology letter,” Steedman said.

Rasmussen said, “Personally, I’d probably take her to Winterspring,” which he felt was a more romantic location in World of Warcraft.

When it comes down to it, you can pay for your date’s account, and you fit her character with the best and most epic gear, but she still won’t appreciate the majesty of Ironforge. World of Warcraft can be picked up any place videogames are sold.

7) Church (Catholic)

Nothing says romance like Catholic Church-provided guilt. Rasmussen believes that church is generally not a good place to go on a date “unless she’s really religious.”

The awkwardness of this date can be amplified even further if neither one on the date is Catholic.

6) Walmart (Target is okay)

A person can either be a Walmart person or a Target person. I’ve made my allegiance.

Rasmussen said, “Target’s a lot classier.”

Steedman said, “I like both,” but she also said that Target is better for a Valentine’s date.

And Jorgensen said that Target is better but that neither are good.

There you have it. Don’t go to Walmart on Valentine’s Day.

5) Gamestop

I know it doesn’t make sense, but do you know how you feel in a flower shop? That’s how she feels at the Gamestop. It’s awkward and uncomfortable, and she wants to leave. Don’t do that to her.

Steedman said, “I’d be very bored.”

Rasmussen said that to go to a Gamestop for Valentine’s Day, his date would have to really want a game. “And then I’d probably buy it for her,” Rasmussen said.

4) Strip Club

A strip club is not the place to go with a Valentine, but it’s the place to get a Valentine for the length of a song for 50 dollars.

Steedman said that a strip club would be a fun adventure while Jorgensen said that she would be offended. Rasmussen said that he might go there with a group if they were all plastered at the end of the night.

3) Any place that would prompt you to mention your ex-girlfriend

Seriously, if the soup she liked comes to mind, don’t go to that restaurant.

Steedman said, “If he proposed to her or they met there, I’d be kinda mad.”

Jorgensen said, “It doesn’t make you feel special.”

2) A Scared Straight Program

You want to take your Valentine on a date, but maybe you have some concerns about your date’s civic disposition. Maybe there just happens to be a Scared Straight Program beginning on February 14. Is this an ideal opportunity to kill two birds with one stone or what? Answer: No.

Jorgensen said, “I’d probably never talk to him again.”

1) Hannah Montana Concert

Hopefully there are bouncers to keep adults without children out, but whatever the opposite of romance is can be discovered at a Hannah Montana concert. If you and your Valentine score tickets to this Disney phenom, prepare for the most electrifying entertainment that you will not enjoy.

Rasmussen said, “I’m just gonna have to go with: Wow. That’s probably the worst place to go on a date.”

Jorgensen said, “That’d be funny but not a good date.”