⛅ The morning I Jean-Claude Van Damme'd my girlfriend's anxiety medicine
Also, a life pro tip and Uber saving lives
Happy Sunday! This week’s 3 things include a short story, a little bit of wisdom, and a fun fact.
1. It's late September in South Carolina. The brutally hot summer is over and it's now that time of year when the weather can't decide what it wants to identify as. Which is cool and all. I don't judge. It just makes it a bit of a pain in the ass when deciding between the heat or A/C.
It's a Saturday morning and I wake around 7:30 AM. It's cold as shit. Guess I made the wrong call. I scurry out of bed and into the bathroom where I relieve my bladder from its ever-increasing struggle to hold its own throughout the night. I'm only 32, but I can already tell growing old is going to be fun.
After making my way out of the bathroom, I see my girlfriend still tucked under the covers sleeping. We have no plans this weekend for the first time in about a month, so I'm happy to crawl back into bed, play a game on my phone, and let her sleep.
An hour and a half later, she rolls over to me with a hazy, "Good morning". We chat for a bit (typical pillow talk things), and then she remembers she has to take her anxiety medicine. She looks over at the dresser about 8 feet away, but the gaze in her eyes made it seem more like 100.
She turns to me and goes, "...do you think you could grab my m..."
But before she has a chance to finish, I've already leapt out of bed in a spinning cyclone fashion. I'm no Jean-Claude Van Damme, but that morning I sure as hell tried to be.
"Whooooooosh."
One spin. Two spins. Without breaking my rhythm, I snatch the medicine in motion and cyclone back to the bed. In the blink of an eye, it was off the dresser and into her hands.
Her knight in shining armor.
She stared at me in disbelief. I don't think her thoughts quite had the chance to process what had just happened. But then, she burst out laughing. I did the same. I let out a snort in the midst of my laugh attack (something that's been happening a lot lately since I've been with her).
It was the perfect way to start the day. And in that moment I realized I found someone I can be my goofy self with.
I know I’m kind of an idiot, but no one made her swipe right. She did that all on her own.
Man am I glad she did.
2. Life Pro Tip (from Reddit): Don’t accept criticism from someone you wouldn’t accept advice from.
3. Say what you will about Uber, but here’s a neat fact. According to a new study, the ride-share service helps keep drunk drivers off the road (and saves lives). Uber and its competitors have lowered alcohol-related US driving fatalities by 6.1% and overall US traffic deaths by 4%. Small percentages at first glance but huge numbers when digging into the details.
Hope you have a great week!
Jason