A Modern Day Love Story: Part 1

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Once upon a time there was a girl who worked in a bakery selling bread and cakes and pies and making sandwiches and salad rolls.  She also happened to like eating said bread and cakes and pies and sandwiches but truly, that is another story.

Once upon a time there was also a boy who worked at a service station pumping fuel, checking tyres and oil and water and cleaning windscreens.  He didn't happen to like pumping fuel, checking tyres and oil and water and cleaning windscreens but again, that is another story.

This is the story.....

Every day, for many years, the boy would come into the girl's bakery at roughly the same time (11:30am) and the girl would make him a take-away sandwich for his lunch (chicken, cheese, tomato, onion, pepper no salt, cut into quarters).  This went on every day for years.  Years I'm telling you.  No variation to that sandwich apart from occasionally ham instead of chicken.  That's it. 

Anyhoo, one day the boy told the girl (while she was making his lunch - chicken, cheese, tomato, onion, pepper no salt) that he was leaving to start his own business and he wouldn't be coming into the bakery anymore to get his take-away sandwich.  

The girl was distraught (though she was way too cool to show it).  Years (years!!) of flirting and flashing her eyelashes in the hopes that he would take her hints and ask her out and here he was telling her he was leaving?!?!.   Leaving?!?!?! The girl didn't think so...

So she did something about it.  She made a Plan.  A Plan that involved doing something she would never have done otherwise (the girl really was a shy, retiring type when it came to boys) but took the bull by the horns she did and she did something.

The very next day (she wasn't giving herself the opportunity to back out of her newly-made Plan) she hopped in her little silver car and drove the necessary 45 minutes to the boy's new business.  As this was something very out of character for the girl, she of course told no one of her Plan.  If no one knew the Plan, no one would know the outcome should it fail.  Pessimistic thinking perhaps, or realistic....  

Unfortunately for the girl, she was in the wrong lane as she came closer to his business so she had to drive on by and do a u-turn on a busy road to get back.  Then, when she was just about there, she saw the boy outside his new business and freaked out and kept driving.  Finally, on the third trip by his new business, she pulled her little silver car over, spoke calmly and rationally to herself (not really but the language she used should not be recorded in print!), and after a few deep breaths got out of the car and walked towards the boy.....

To be continued.....