A movie and dinner.

I was dumbstruck for a second, unable to get my mind off the contemplation of Shanna's ... well, everything! Her eyes, her face, her body....

When I finally snapped out of it, I decided that, since it wasn't really that late yet, dinner could wait. "How about a movie first?"

Shanna nodded. "Sounds like a plan. Do you have anything in mind?"

Actually, I'd looked up tonight's schedule at the movie theatre and printed it out ahead of time. I walked quickly to the coffee table in my living room, retrieved the paper, and brought it over to Shanna. I'd circled three of the titles: a chick flick that I'd heard was pretty popular, a comedy with Adam Sandler, and a movie about some college kids and a werewolf, just because one of my college chums had suggested that scary movies were somehow good for dates.

I paused for a moment. Which one should I pick? Since I was only meeting Shanna for the first time, I really had no idea what she liked. Would the Adam Sandler movie offend her? Did I really have to sit through an hour and a half of girl talk? Did she like scary movies, or would she go home shaking?