Grill Girl
MVWD happened when I was a sophomore in college. I tagged along with a friend to a party, where I met R. He was really cute, and the conversation flowed really well. At the end of the night, I gave him my number.
We started texting each other, and one day he told me he had purchased a grill and invited me to come over for a steak dinner. I was really excited for our first date and spent all afternoon getting ready. Right before we were supposed to meet, R called me and told me he wasn’t ready for me to come over because he was still putting together his new grill, but he’d call me when he was done. An hour and a half later, he finally called me back to say that he still wasn’t done with the grill but I could come over anyway. I had waited this long, and I really liked him, so I agreed and walked over to his apartment.
When I got there, I was surprised to find that he had a friend over. The two of them were sitting in the living room surrounded by grill parts. I was extremely hungry–it was 9:30 p.m. by this point–and R offered to heat up some leftover Chinese food in his fridge for the three of us to tide us over until the steaks could be made. I sat there awkwardly on his couch eating take out while watching the two of them fail at putting together the grill. Finally, I got fed up with them and took the directions from R, and I proceeded to tell the two boys what to do until the grill was successfully set up. By this point, it was around midnight, and R realized that he hadn’t bought any propane. So, the three of us piled into his car and went on a fruitless search to find propane at 12 a.m. Once that plan failed, we ended up going to a late night sushi restaurant, and I finally got my dinner at 1 a.m.
After that bizarre adventure, we went back to R’s place. His friend left, so the two of us finally got some alone time. We had a glass of wine and talked, which was the only nice part of the night. He dropped me off at home and promised me he’d make me a steak dinner later that week, but after all that trouble of putting together his grill I never got my steak.
