how the hell does dating work?

i don't even know how you tell what exactly a date is to know when/if i was on one ...... i think i have only been on one proper date (as far as i know) not sure though lol but that one was such a disaster i am not sure i want to go on anymore! ...... it wasn't that the woman who i went on the date with was so bad, she was ok, though i never really got the chance to get to know her properly after this first date lol ...... it went wrong from the start (but then she was blonde so i shouldn't have expected any better and it reminded me why i had my golden rule of not doing blondes!) but anyway, despite the fact that she visited the town at least every other week she still got lost on her way ....... and people wonder why blondes are thought of as dumb huh? lol ........ anyway she had damaged her knee a couple of weeks earlier and so was on crutches which was a pain as the restaurant was a buffet restaurant so i ended up spending most of the time in the restaurant filling our plates ....... but that wasn't the worst thing, the worst was one of the waitresses - she spent the entire meal chatting me up and then as we tried to leave she was literally holding onto me saying i couldn't go yet ...... i was sooooooooo embarrassed lol ....... was not quite what you want on a date lol ....... but eventually we got out and went into the cinema next door but couldn't get in to see any of the films we wanted to see as we had missed the start so we ended up just taking the only film that was due to start soon lol (i couldn't even tell you what it was called) ...... anyway we got upstairs and she decided she needed to go the loo so while she went i went to get drinks and popcorn etc and got chatting to the girl who was serving me while i was waiting ....... probably wasn't the best idea coz just as me date got back she was trying to convince me to come to the after hours showing of some film or other lol ..... and even when we got in there she couldn't sit and watch the film coz there wasn't enough legroom for her to stretch out and she was in pain throughout lol

funnily enough she doesn't speak to me anymore ....... no idea why!

so what is supposed to happen on a date anyway? i mean i did try with the meal and flicks thing but it really don't seem much of a way to get to know someone! i think i will just accept i am crap at dating and give them up as a bad job ..... i am obviously just crap at them!