No, this is not about food. Rather, it is about a couple that Marylin and I encountered on the bus ride home. There we were, innocently sitting there on our trek home when a girl plopped down on the seat across from me. Her boyfriend stood beside her and got dangerously close. In fact, he was nearly on top of her. Since I was facing that way, I couldn’t help but notice them from time to time. That is when my mind started to register the yellow shirts they were wearing.
Now, at first that didn’t seem like a huge deal. Maybe they just both were in the mood for yellow t-shirts that day. But then I saw the design on them: matching cartoons. You know the “Little Miss” characters? Yeah. That is what opened my eyes to their black pants. They were thus deemed the “bumblebee couple” for their color choice. Well, now that I had noticed a pattern, their matching chain bracelets popped out at me too. I saw a tattoo on the girl’s hand and even started to scan the guy’s hands for a similar marking. Thank goodness I didn’t find one, or else I may have been consumed with nausea (partly contributed to by the bus movement).
I don’t mean to judge, but why would you EVER want to match your partner like that? Unless it’s a costume party or a uniform you two must both wear to school or work, it’s just not cool. The time and effort spent on that is a sad waste of time that could be much better spent. If it’s accidental, it can be forgiven once or twice, but a consistent pattern probably points to a serious excess of time. Is it just us or is that behavior that should never catch on? I admit, I can be really cheesy sometimes, but even this is too much for me. You can be cutesy with each other in private all you want, but too much PDA is just disconcerting.
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