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Time goes by . . . The discussion goes around the table. She is watching silently and paying attention. He is trying to unobtrusively watch her watching them. Beautiful, intelligent, WOW!
Then, without any warning and totally unrelated to anything in the current topic of conversation, like a deep eruption from a long silent violent volcano, she spews forth "Why, when guys ask you out on a date, they only ask you to go drink?" A stunned silence reigns. Wow! volatile chick he thinks to himself in a stunned shock. Where did that come from? Is she related to Lorena Bobbitt? he muses while crossing his legs. Everyone looks at her expectantly . . .Then, another eruption, this one a sort of an anguished wail "I don't drink!" The females in the room, readily latching onto a handy excuse for male bashing, babble forth from all corners of the room on a million different subjects. Chaos rules. The roar is deafening. Then.

“The thought penetrates the testosterone fog of his brain,”

The thought penetrates the testosterone fog of his brain,"I don't drink either." Where does he take girls on dates? Hell, he hasn't been on a "date" in eight years. With alarm, the realization dawns on him, he hasn"t a clue. Hmmm . . . this will take some thought. First he must deduce some of the reasons guys ask girls to go drink.
1-This is partially a function of age

2-Alcohol is a social lubricant. It makes people feel more confident and less inhibited. This serves a two-fold purpose:
[A]The guy becomes charming and funny, virtually a legend in his own mind;
[B] hopefully she will get seriously uninhibited and he will get in some serious extracurricular activity in pro-creation.
3- Most first dates are best in a neutral territory. Somewhere that is not not so serious as to make for discomfort.