A Walk in the Park

Submitted by Lianne:

Simon told me that he had an idea for something "different" for our date.  He said that it was something he had done loads of times before, and that it was a surprise.  I considered asking him how something "different" could have been something that he had done "loads of times," but I tried to keep an open mind.

He told me to meet him at a park on a lake about a half-hour away.  I did.  I called him up to find out if he was already there.

"Oh, I'm here.  You'll have to find me.  It'll be well worth it," he said over the phone.

It was a nice day and I figured that it was indeed something a little bit different, if not a little strange, for a first date.  The park was relatively well-populated, and I started up one of the paths.

After a half-hour, though, I grew tired of not spending the time with the guy I had come to spend time with.  I was hungry and becoming bored.  I called him up and asked him, "Where are you?  Let's just meet up and do lunch."

He said, "I should've known that you had no sense of adventure.  I might be sitting over a picnic lunch, waiting for you."

That was promising, so he gave me a hint about direction and I kept going.

That hint didn't work out so well, and after another twenty or so minutes, I was ready to call it quits.  I called him and told him so, and he gave me precise directions to where he was, about as deep into the park as you could go.

When I found him, he was just sitting there on a bench.  No picnic lunch.  His defense was, "I said that I might have brought a lunch.  I never said that I did."

It was a good forty minute walk back to the car, but I must have done it in twenty, and without him.


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Why without him?