I came by Jenny’s house to ask her out but found only her mother home.
Mrs Jones invited me in to wait but after awhile said that Jenny would be
quite some time as she was having a tennis lesson. She handed me a plate
of cookies and a glass of coke and said I might as well settle in to wait.
I would have left but couldn’t say “no” with a plate in my lap and a coke
in hand. I ate the biscuits and drank the coke while making polite
conversation. “Well, I had
