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Hyacinthe - I laughed at your post because I've been in the same situation and it's so true. I hate miscommunication in the nature of an outing.
As for what "dating" means to me...When referring to romantic situations, if I tell a friend that a guy and I are "dating", then I mean the exclusive type. I often interchange this with "going out". BUT if I refer to an evening as a "date" or if I tell a friend that I went on "a few dates" with a guy then that does not assume that we're exclusive (in other words, when "dates" are specific, individual events it's usually not exclusive to me, but when they refer to the relationship as a whole it's almost always an exclusive deal). Also, I see the terms of boyfriend/girlfriend as referring to an exclusive relationship.
and as for dirtyrascal's question, I do think there are platonic dates. I find it cute to refer to obviously non-romantic evenings as dates.
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