Connell Barrett

They finally found a word that rhymes with oranges.

And that word is gorgeous, which is you.

So as I say that to you now, that's making me cringe.

But that's what I was planning on because I thought your opener had to be perfect and witty and amazing.

So I walk over to her and I grab an orange to say the perfect quote unquote opener and the orange lets loose this whole pyramid of oranges and the pyramid topples and tumbles and 15 oranges fall, tumble at our feet.

It was hilarious, hilariously embarrassing.

And we both cracked up at my incredible klutziness.

And I think my actual opening line became, yep, I'm that cool guy at Whole Foods, right?

So much simpler and more spontaneous.

then the scripted planned thing I was going to say perfectly imperfect.

And it went amazingly well.

She and I laughed.

Um, we talked, we chatted, we picked up the oranges together.

She helped me and I recovered in terms of my comfort level.

And I became, I didn't, I didn't over-apologize, but I did.

I was very self-effacing and I got her number and we ended up going on the date

And on our first date, she said that that was the moment that made her basically want to go out with me.

Not the oranges falling, but how I recovered from it and just how real it was.

She said, oh, that was like something out of a rom-com.

She told four of her girlfriends, or maybe not four, she told a couple of girlfriends about our meet cute, our meet awkward at Whole Foods.