Shannon's Journal, Volume 3

[Shannon]

Last night, I was too exhausted to cook and so was GF so we relented and went to Cracker Barrel to eat. Had something really odd happen there. One of the guys there who works as a cashier struck up a conversation with us while we were waiting to be seated, and he was talking about how I met and landed GF with us. It seemed to end rather awkwardly (I think he's very attracted to her), and then we had someone else who works there immediately start a conversation with us. She talked to us until we were called.

We sat down and this guy suddenly appeared in the dining area, and was doing bussing work. For a while, he made no eye contact with us, but after a while (before our food came out), he came over and said, "Hey, if you guys want to get dessert, it's on me. I recommend the Coca Cola cake, it's good."

I was rather stunned, and I blurted out, "What? Why?"

"Because I love you guys! You're great! When the server comes over, just tell her that whatever you get for dessert is on me."

Both of us were blown away. What just happened?

Then before we got a chance to mention it to the server he came over and told her this same thing while she was serving us.

We decided to accept his kindness and ordered a coca cola chocolate cake. She's been trying to avoid eating sweets lately, and I'm not big on vanilla ice cream, so we shared it. He saw this and asked why we didn't order two?

Then later after we were all done, before we could leave the dining room, he came over and asked me to promise that I would get dessert on him every time we came in. Fist bump to agree. I'm blown away again.

"I can't take advantage of you like that, man!" I said.

"It's just $5. No big deal."

"How about you invest that $5 each week instead?"

"How about I invest that $5 each week and get you guys dessert also?"

I had to laugh.

I'm not sure what's going through his head, but it's very strange. We are running UMS v2 Stage 4 again right now, so the only thing I can think of is that either he really likes GF and wants to be kind to us both so he doesn't raise suspicions, or he's responding to the aura somehow. I don't get the impression he's trying to steal her, but I know he's attracted to her by the way he acts around us. She's short and curvy in all the right places, so I can't blame him. Still, this is really strange to have happen.