Cornered Molly at registration as I was desperate to find out about how things went on her date.
‘How are things with Theo?’ I asked.
She stared into the distance with a happy, wistful look on her face. ‘Oh yeh, amazing. He’s SO lovely. We went to McDonald’s on Saturday and he bought me a McChicken Sandwich. I offered to pay – I am a feminist after all – but he insisted. It wasn’t even a 99p one – it was a full-price proper one. How cute is that?’
‘I mean … quite? I guess …’
‘I want to remember it forever, so I kept this,’ she said, pulling out a screwed-up bit of tissue from her pocket.
‘What’s that?!’
‘It’s his napkin.’
‘Oh … um … lovely. Is that Big Mac sauce on it?’
‘Yeh. He LOVES Big Macs,’ she said dreamily.
Well, so do I but I don’t want to keep screwed-up old napkins covered in them. However, I didn’t want her to feel bad, so I just said, ‘Wow. Cool. You could pass it on to your kids and grandkids like a family heirloom.’
‘Yeh, I totally will,’ she said while smiling and stroking it.
OK, I was being sarcastic, but it seemed totally lost on her today.
Then – get this – she kissed the napkin and put it back in her pocket.
What a strange girl.
Maybe this is what love does to you??
We’ll have to see in a couple of weeks’ time if I’m collecting Daniel’s used napkins. Hope not – blurgh.