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He Waited Until After the Movie to Ask If “I Liked Mustache Rides”
What universe were we in again? I didn’t realize sitting through a movie guaranteed action.
I’m not sure about you, but people surprise me sometimes when it comes to what they find appropriate behavior on a date. People like Will.
Will happened to be one of those unicorns who feels their “owed” something when taking a girl out.
I guess the night we went to the drive-in, Will thought I owed him a lot.
Don’t ask me why I agreed to go out with this guy. He was pleasant enough, I guess, soft-spoken, a good tipper when he came to play blackjack. We both looked like hobbits (and I love me some Samwise Gamgee). He also sometimes brought me ice-cold cans of Coke at the right time.
The only issue was the patch of hair above his lip he’d been growing since “No shave November”. He liked to groom in public when he could. But if you looked at his forehead, he was normal — boring, even. Though charming enough for us both to settle for each other.
When I asked him why he would go out of his way for me, he said he did it, “just because.”
(See where I’m going with this?)
