Last night, I was out for dinner with my dad and his friends (more fun than you would have imagined), and we were at the bar getting drinks. Besides being happy about talking dad into having a jagerbomb with me, there was a cute boy just down the bar. Not only was there a cute boy, but he was looking our way, talking softly to his other, less cute friend as he looked over. “Ooh,” I thought. “Cute boy thinks I’m cute!”

A couple of seconds later, cute boy starts walking over, looking nervous as hell. “Oh my goodness!” I thought to myself. “Here he comes!” He approached Dad, myself, and the other Ashleigh (dad’s partner’s daughter), but alas, rather than talk to me he turned to my father. “Excuse me sir, my name’s Matt, and I was on one of the STAR Force seminars that you ran a while ago. I just wanted to say that what you said really did change my perception of myself, and got me focused and motivated enough to do something about it.”

Sigh.