North by Southwest

Story Sent in by Vickie:

Josh told me that he had the best idea ever for our first date. There wasn't a heck of a lot to do in our town and so when he told me he had a surprise for me I became pretty excited.

He drove us out to a cornfield and he parked right next to an old, rusty tractor. He got out of the car and beckoned for me to follow him toward it.

At the tractor he said, "Isn't it awesome?"

An old tractor. That's all it was. I wasn't impressed. "That's it?"

He said, "I don't know whose it is. It's a mystery. Maybe a murder mystery. Let's solve it tonight!"

I suggested, "Maybe we can do dinner?"

He ignored that idea of course. Instead he paced around the tractor and investigated it closely and hemmed and hawed as if collecting clues. As we had driven out there in his car, I was stuck with him.

Finally he said that he knew who the "killer" was. We jumped back into his car and returned to town. Once there, instead of tracking down his quarry, he led me into a games shop and he joined in some card game that used little action figures as part of whatever it was all about.

I left without him even noticing.