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First Date

October 26, 2021 7 Comments

By Andy Lind

“Are you okay?” She asked me as I sat in the passenger seat of her car crushing my face and doing my best to hold back an oncoming migraine so I wouldn’t throw up.

“I’m fine,” I said, not even bothering to open my eyes to see how she was driving or where she was driving us to.

I was hearing my father’s voice in my head. He’d warned me. He’d said she was trouble.

She pulled over and shut off the vehicle.

“I’ll be fine,” I told her. “I just never thought we would be robbing a bank on our first date.”

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  1. Helen C says

    October 26, 2021 at 7:45 am

    I don’t know what to say about this – it’s sad the other person has a migraine attack but funny they were robbing a bank.

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  2. albertkatz says

    October 26, 2021 at 7:49 am

    I liked it. The migraine was a natural reaction to robbing a bank – and the woman driving. One is left wondering if there will be a second date (the speaker after all is now a fellow thief (so is obviously stuck/involved with her) and, if the first date is a robbery, what will end up on the second date

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  3. Alastair says

    October 26, 2021 at 8:32 am

    Good one – loved the twist at the end!

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  4. Cathy Cade says

    October 26, 2021 at 9:39 am

    That was different!

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  5. Jen says

    October 27, 2021 at 7:07 am

    Love it! Great twist…

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  6. Valli Henry-Boldini says

    October 27, 2021 at 8:09 am

    Nice little tale with a good twist ending… kudos…

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  7. Our Mick says

    October 31, 2021 at 6:52 am

    Great twist!

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