Should it Really Be Called a 'Date'?

I read a blog called "It's Only a Date," and got to thinking, 'Shouldn't it be called an audition?' That fits, 'audition' just works better for me.


So you have an audition or several, all goes well leading to the horizontal mambo, after which you should tell your friends, "I have a time with Sally, Friday," and they can drink your beers and won't wait up.

Things progress and all of a sudden you have to meet her parents, and that should certainly qualify for telling your friends, "I have a scrutiny with Sally on Saturday night."

Moving-in warrants your confession you'll be doing a poser, engagement will mean you're going adrift from your pals in a surrender, and if you're actually going to go through the matrimonial act, then you need to tell your friends "I'm having a blunder in October."

If the Inuit ('Eskimos') can have all those words for snow, we should cut to the chase in redefining pre-nup nomenclature.