The Perfect Couple's Couple

My friend Lis (that is her code name) was telling me a story about how her and her hubbie invited some of their new friends out for breakfast last Saturday morning. They have been hanging out with this couple for about 6 months on a pretty regular basis but this was the first time they invited them to one of their favorite little breakfast spots. It is a quaint little restaurant in the back of an old antique shop...Lis said it makes you feel like you are walking into someones kitchen circa 1952. The menu is not your average menu either...it only had a handful of items listed but Lis was sure that everyone could find something that they liked. She said when they sat down, she could just tell that the other hubbie was wondering where in the world they were. She said he looked over the menu like he was reading his own obituary...and 20 minutes later he finally decided what he would order. After a few bites of his biscuits and gravy, he loudly told the server that there was no way he could eat it. He said that there was something in the gravy that would make him sick if he took one more bite. The server promptly offered to bring him something new but he said that he needed to see the menu again. After another awkwardly long wait, he decided to get a simple cheese omelet and told the server, "hopefully that can't be messed up too much!" Lis said that she was half-way done with her food before he got his order. What made it really bad though was that he was so mean to the server and Lis was embarrassed at how harshly he spoke to her. She said that it was such a horrible breakfast that she now thinks different of this fun-loving couple that they have hung out with so many times before. I too, have been in a similar situation...NOT FUN!

The point of this post is that I think it is IMPOSSIBLE, yes, I said IMPOSSIBLE to find the perfect couple's couple to hang out with. My husband and I often talk about this and it always seem like you come to a point with that other couple where you have the awkward moment and it sours the friendship somehow. Sometimes it is after date #1, other times it is after date #10...no matter how long it takes though, it always happens!

When I think about all of my friends, I am certain that they have had the same issue. In fact, most of them talk about their couple's couple experiences. Sometimes the kids create the gap, other times it is just a clash of personalities. What really sucks though is when we fall in "like" with one of the spouses but can't stand the other....I have tried to come up with ways to only invite one of them over for dinner but it just never works.

In a perfect world, my husband and I would find a fun, happy couple that loves to hang out and do the things we love to do...dinner, movies, dessert...nothing too fancy! In our most recent conversation about this, he mentioned two new couples for us to date... My worry is that neither of these new couples have kids...which I think makes it hard but we are going to try it out anyways.

Although, a thought did cross my mind that I mentioned to him...What if we are the couple that annoys everyone???  

P.S.- My husband wanted me to post that he just ate animal crackers dipped in peanut butter and it was wonderful.