"I'm scary when I'm angry. You haven't seen me really mad."
But then a week later or so, I was going into the back/stockroom, probably with a pallet behind me? And he was coming out, pulling a pallet stocked way over either of our heads behind him. The thing about overnight pallets at Wal-mart is that some of them, like some of the ones for (shoot I'm forgetting my Wal-mart terminology...) paper goods and chemicals, are really light. Stocked really high with toilet paper or diapers. But some of them are stocked like 8 feet high with heavy cases of canned goods or juice, and if one of those runs into you, you're going to get crushed. Pallets (wooden platforms) are pulled on pallet jacks, which are basically these two-teeth forks that stick into the holes of the pallets and allow them to move on wheels, and pulling a pallet behind you, you have limited control (since the pallet jack has just a handle... thing... this is really wordy sorry), and no way to stop it if it's moving qucikly. Meaning to be trapped between one of those pallets while it's in motion, and something else, would be infinitely worse than being "stuck between a rock and a hard place."
In any case, the pallet he was pulling behind him was one of those bulky/terrifyingly steelish ones, and he was turning a corner pretty quickly, i.e. couldn't turn in another direction, and I was just standing there like D-: (as I am inclined to do in any alarming situation), so he ended up gesturing and yelling, "move! move!"
I don't remember what happened exactly, but I got out of his way, and it was okay. I think he told me later that he only yelled because his only two options were either 1) get crushed, or 2) ram into me, and I thought to myself something like, "duh." The explanation obviously wasn't necessary, though I appreciated it
And I think a few hours later that night/morning (or it may have been later that week), he said something like, "now you've seen me angry," and I said, "well it's not like it wasn't justified anger. You could've gotten run over." And he looked kind of impressed, which was funny to me, because it was like would the girls you've dated seriously fail to understand that? Okay, maybe not so much funny as comforting, then.
In any case, I think he conceded that that wasn't really anger anger then, so much as it was a reaction appropriate to the current circumstance.
But I guess my point is I want to see him get scary-mad. We should just make a bargain. You make me cry, and I'll make you mad, and we'll go our separate ways.
Actually, it's funny because I thought of this other dealio where maybe I would ask, if we couldn't meet just once a month. Because he's kind of dangerous and I kind of annoy him. I was offhandedly saying this to my mom (she doesn't really know anything about him or the situation, but you know, girls talk) though and she was like "as if you could hold to that."
I don't know. I'm just not afraid of him. But he lives far away, we're both busy, the whole thing is pretty absurd, and I think it would be kind of magical and delightfully clandestine if we sort of did this secret once-a-month thing.
Yes, I'm still on this.
Happy Thanksgiving. Mine was really good. I'm thankful we both exist and that the world exists. MAy Thanksgiving bring many thank yous from us next year as well