#36 The Dating Code

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When a young woman asked my son to the girl’s choice dance and he didn’t accept immediately, I offered some fatherly advice.

“Are you nuts? What if she changes her mind? Call her back right now and say you’ll go!”

“That wouldn’t be creative Dad,” he said in a not-quite-patient tone. It’s the same tone the cashier uses when I try to sneak eleven items in the ten-items-or-less line by claiming that hot dogs and buns go together naturally so they shouldn’t really count as two things.

Creative? As it turns out it meant sending the young lady a mystery to solve. My son left an encrypted message in her locker which directed her to the choir room where he’d hidden another message agreeing to go out with her. When did dating turn into The DaVinci Code?
 

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