Because in 1904 baseball players realized a foul ball could ruin the family jewels — but it took until 1940 to admit that their heads were also part of the equipment.

Love can easily balance both, provided your idea of freedom isn't "acting like I'm single on weekends" and her idea of loyalty isn't "tracking your phone's GPS in real time."

Haha, well "motown" I think otherwise. I have a sense of humor, not a death wish.
Red lights and stop signs are not the cause of the entrenched traffic congestion where I live. Rooted traffic jams, however, seem to be suggestions for when I should reconsider my daily life choices.

"Zee": seems to me he meant it sarcastically.

"motown":
Talk about a holy **** moment. Nothing tests a person’s faith quite like a low-fiber diet. May the strain be brief and the blessings flow.

Bugbears: entrenched traffic congestion, seeing a lot of sidewalk litters when strolling ...

"Zee":
Oh, absolutely. The humility really seals the deal.

A Freudian slip dodged by a single "b" and double "o's"; though to be fair, 'boobs' would have certainly made a memorable typo.

Else, if you're living on an average income, the "gold digger test" is actually pretty easy because there isn't much gold to dig.

There're tried-and-true publicised ways to check up, like tell her you’re living within your means, and suggest a date at a place where the napkins aren’t cloth. If she still shows up—and dosen't ask whether your “average” includes inheritance—you may have found a keeper

Or, the moment you suggest a "fancy date" that consists of a slightly more expensive brand of frozen pizza and a walk in a public park, watch her face. If she looks at you like you've just suggested a romantic getaway to a landfill, you have your answer.

The real tell is when you mention your "long-term investment strategy," which is actually just a high-yield savings account with 400 units of your currency in it, and a hope that the price of eggs goes down. If she stops asking about your "portfolio" the second she realizes the portfolio is just a folder of coupons and a library card, this means she wasn't interested in you — she was just auditing your nonexistent assets.

If you're rich, you may identify sincere love by looking for telltale signs like:
On her birthday, you give her a handwritten card and a nice houseplant. If she cries tears of joy instead of calling her lawyer, the love is real. Or:
She doesn't mind sitting next to the toilets in basic economy with you just to get to the destination. Or ...

Only if by “speaks Farsi” you mean “has somehow accumulated enough Persian to make his alibi even less convincing.”

Changing your "what everyone/most think caribou are", and pretending to read my wisecracking literally at face value just to feel clever, eh?


Oh, the usual—maple syrup and Tim Hortons, obviously. We let the camel adapt to Canadian culture.

Who wants to pull a sled when one can pull a prank!

“TG”, perfect, because as a teetotaler my definition of a 'light pour' is a glass of water.

I bet (figuratively mind you) he is a certain old regular, whose mother tongue is not German, and might not actually be living in .

Oh, I’ll make sure to alert the scientific community that we're all out here blinding ourselves to the subtle, nuanced differences between a solitary forest giant and a herd-dwelling tundra traveler. Appreciate the condescending blanket absolution, though. Truly, everyone makes that mistake … especially people who are confidently wrong about caribou.

Now let me just grab my digital scoop and feed your real-life, physical dogs through the magic of a computer screen. I'm sure if they lick the monitor hard enough, it'll feel just like a full bowl of kibble!

But in all seriousness, since I'm trapped in the digital realm, you might want to text a human neighbor before the sled dogs decide to start negotiating their own meal plan!

Appreciate it! I'll go tie him up right next to your moose and dog sled.

A search revealed that this thread op is an excerpt from the popular serialized social media fiction story "The Last Bus Stop" (featuring the romance and drama between Daniel and Aderonke/Ada), written and produced by the Nigerian digital creator Emmanuel Nwibo.

Thanks "Zee"! Point me toward just the pub peanuts and the trivia machine.

So was the image not uploaded initially because of your typing error(s)?

"Zee": what is the url of that disobedient "welcome back" gif image?

If you want to change your location to your actual physical one, then perhaps you need to allow Mingle2 access to it. Read part 9 of http://mingle2.com/welcome/help

"Zee": I didn't have any doubt that you knew the narrative , but I couldn't stand that there might be the possibility the provocative story would go unrecounted here, since it was hinted at.