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And When It Was All Over, She Told Him He Was "Such a Good Friend"

Jun 24, 2008
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WTF?

When I think of a first date, I think of getting coffee or dinner and a movie, not spending 2 days trying to get off Mt. Shasta. Now, in fairness to the couple, he climbed Shasta routinely and both were experienced, but still… I wonder if he planned all this as a sort of a outdoor "stop short" move? Or if she blamed him for not stopping to ask for directions? Their second date is the Spaghetti Factory.

Can you tell I'm a little bitter about romance lately?

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  1. Ken  •  Jun 24, 2008 @11:35 am

    If by "lately" you mean "for as long as I've known you," then yes.

    This puts me in mind of a marvelous story from my days as a prosecutor. Two prosecutors in my office were seeing each other — not secretly, but discreetly. One evening they went for a hike — in the Santa Monica mountains, if memory serves. It got dark and they got lost and they had a little trouble getting down off the mountain, and eventually search and rescue came.

    This would have passed without comment except that it was an extraordinarily slow news day, and one of the local news stations picked it up and ran it as their lead story, with the title PRISONERS OF DARKNESS, with graphics and music and breathless delivery and on-camera interviews of my extremely embarrassed looking friends.

    Someone taped it and showed it at the office's weekly all-hands meeting.

    There was some teasing.