In December of 2009, I was working in a small town as the so..

In December of 2009, I was working in a small town as the sous chef at a high end restaurant. The town was having their annual Christmas parade, which ran right in front of the restaurant. We were struggling for business at the time and the head chef, Eric, saw an opportunity. He came running into the kitchen and told me to make four of the best pizzas I had ever made in my life. I did and once they were done, Eric told me to box them up and follow his lead; we grabbed two boxes each, walked out into the crowd, and started giving pizza to the parade onlookers (it was a success, we were slammed that night). When I ran out of food, I returned to the restaurant where Eric was waiting for me with a big grin on his face. He told me that I had made quite an impression on someone and they had actually given their contact information to him, requesting that he give it to me. He did, her name was Nora. I was actually able to find this lady online before ever reaching out to her. Turns out she was this kind of self made model and had actually done a few photo shoots in front of the graffiti I had painted around town. She was beautiful and seemed really rad, so I called her, we talked, and decided to go see a movie together that weekend. The weekend came and I was leaving my house to go see Nora. I stopped for gas before I got on the highway, where I was then approached by a homeless man. He asked me for a ride, saying that just needed to go down the road a bit. It was on the way to where I was going, so I agreed and we both got in my car. The man asked me if I was the devil. I told him that if I was, it was a little late to be asking, and I started driving. After about an hour and way too many backroads later, I finally dropped this man off at his destination. Unfortunately, I had no idea where I had ended up. I started driving until I found a package store. I went inside and asked the cashier where I was. Apparently I had driven so far that I had made it to another state. I tried calling Nora to tell her what happened but my phone was dead, so I got directions from the cashier, started driving as fast as I could, and hoped for the best. I pulled up to the theater without a second to spare. Coincidentally, so did Nora, who got held up waiting for her mother to come home with the car. We hurried to the lobby together to get our tickets. However, this theater had just installed ticket kiosks and we had no idea how to use them. Eventually we figured it out and found where our movie was playing. We missed the first part of the movie, and I don’t even remember what we saw, but I remember we had a great fucking time. It was an obscure start to what turned out to be an obscure relationship. I ended up moving away soon after and, despite our best efforts, the relationship came to a close. We remained friends though, and still talk to this day ❤️