Dreamt this morning that I was going out to eat with some old family friends, but I had also had a date with Drew From The Internet scheduled (in real life we met once last summer; that she showed up in my dream just now seems pretty random). I was walking over to her place and we were texting back and forth as I was trying to figure out what to do, since I didn't want to go out to eat twice in one day. It turned out that we were both fans of this catholic pinball (video?) game in which you'd disprove dogma as you progressed through the machine.

Next thing I knew, I'd brought her back to my parents' house for dinner. That was a strange choice on my part, I thought, but my mom had brought some brownies back from bridge club and that made it better. I was talking about some people I'd known in middle school. Drew stared at her plate. Then I wandered out to the living room and fell asleep on the couch.

I woke up a little while later still having dinner with Bev and Jerry on my mind, realized that Drew was gone and that this had probably been the worst date ever for her. I ran out the door and along the route I thought we had taken from her house hoping to catch her and somehow apologize, but she was long gone. As I followed the roads it became paths through the pinball machine, and at the end of the dream I was doing all I could to keep the ball from falling farther into a pit by bouncing it off the walls.