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This is a story from Mr. A, a dear dear friend of mine. Mr. A lives out in Cali where he works for a start-up, which is kind of retro now, I think. Anyways, he asked that this story be shared, and as it is funny, I shall share it. Hopefully he will supply us with some more amusing west coast stories as his own dating adventures continue (as written to me, minor formatting edits):

i'm trying to get back into shape. turns out, its a lot harder than getting out of shape. but i'm getting back on a regular running schedule. there is a notorious intersection on the path i usually take which can take a long few minutes to cross. of course i get stopped nearly every time i go for a run, this time i had some company - an extremely attractive girl, in a random pair of 'look at my beautiful ass, it has words on it' shorts. i blurt out 'want to hail down a taxi to get to the other side?'. she ignores me. but i decided that day that i wasn't to be deterred so i said 'should've brought a deck of cards'. this time she looks at me and smiles, but doesn't say anything. for a man who has been walking in the desert, a smile is like a tall glass of water. i drank it in and said 'want to run together, it'll give you an ego boost?' and this time she takes off her headphones and says 'what?'. headphones! how could i have missed that??! why didn't she have the self-righteous white iPod headphones on? i'm such an idiot. so i repeat the last sentence a little half-heartedly, but she actually laughs and says 'sure, but i have a feeling you're the one whose going to walk awaywith a bigger ego.' i spend the rest of our short run together relating to her the first two things i had said and then explaining why i'm so out of shape, and listening to her out of shape story(almost certainly a lie told out of modesty). we have plans to go running together in a few days. i should really be looking forward to it. but, after i woke up the next morning with my entire body in pain from trying to keep up with her so i didn't look pathetic, i'm actually kind of dreading it.