Mr. Romantic

Rockstar and I have been trading off buying beer for the apartment. It was my turn to buy, so today I drove down the street to our local liquor store on my way home from work.

The counter is run by a Korean man who doesn't speak much English. The biggest pet peeve I have going there is that they have these really small black plastic bags that they use to put goods in. The problem is that when you buy a Miller Lite Fridge Pack of 12 beers, it is way to long for one bag, so they usually put two on it and you end up carrying it by the handles anyway and you have two small black plastic bags left over that are useless. Most of the time you have to tell him you DON'T need a bag and sometimes he puts one on anyway, and sometimes he doesn't.

Today I was behind a guy who was buying a magazine entitled "Exposed" that had two young ladies sitting on each other's laps kissing. It was a nudie magazine. The Korean man rang it up and it came to $10.21, which the guy buying the magazine thought was expensive and even I questioned that price. But, the Korean man said something in some language and pointed to the price on the magazine and that it was correct. The young man buying it looked down at his hand, I assumed he didn't have that much money, and mumbled something and walked out, not purchasing the magazine.

I bought the beer and kind of lost track of what was going on, still thinking about the high price of the magazine, and the Korean man bagged my beer, which I then carried out to my car by the handles.

As I was leaving the parking lot, I passed by this little flower shop that is on the sidewalk. Out of the flower shop came the same young man who was trying to buy the nudie magazine, but he was carrying one red rose.

I thought to myself, wow, that is a really weird thing to buy after trying to purchase porn. Then I thought, maybe he has a girlfriend who said something like,

"I like it when you are romantic towards me", and he immediately thought,

She wants some girl-on-girl porn.

Not being able to get the porn, he went with the old reliable single red rose. So the high price of that magazine probably saved his relationship.

But I still have that stupid black bag!