Sometimes, you have a nice lunch or dinner date planned with someone, but at the last second, they utter the most horrific words.
“Hey do you mind if my boy/girlfriend tags along?”
And how can you refuse? After all, the significant other is driving them there. But you think it might not be that bad. Maybe that person is cool. And chances are, as separate people, the couple is cool. But it’s when you put them together, and there’s only you caught in between, that trouble starts.
First starts the cooing, the complimenting. Then starts the coupley talk. Before long they’re feeding each other and all you can feel is an emotion welling up within that never shows on your face.
Then the interrogation starts. You know which one it is.
“But you’re such a great person! Someone would sure be lucky to have you!”
Soon enough, the topic of conversation changes inevitably to their personal life. If they start bickering though, what else can you try to do but to diffuse the situation?
But before you leave, they say, let’s do this again!
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