“I’m so sorry,” she said. “I really thought he was normal. Chris had no idea he was like this either.”
“Don’t worry about it,” I replied, surprising myself with how unbothered I felt. “We all got a great story out of it, at least.”
“True,” she agreed. “This is officially going to be told at every party for the next decade.”
The whole experience left me with one golden rule for dating: If a guy insists on paying, make sure he’s not going to send you an invoice afterward.
The keychain, though? I kept it. Not because it reminded me of Eric, but because it was a hilarious souvenir from the weirdest date of my life.
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