” “I don’t know what came over me. You touched a nerve.” Now that the moment had passed, I felt a need to downplay crossing this line and put ...he responsibility on her. “Is that what you call it?” “What can I say? No one ever touched my butt before. I guess we crossed a couple of lines tonight.” I was prepared to go down on her in case she had changed her mind about reciprocating, but Beth mercifully turned off the light and gave me another kiss goodnight. I think I was asl**p before she even. She turned to him as he got in the driver’s seat.“OK,” she said. “Serious for a minute. I’ve had exactly one first date in my life. I was 13 years old and two days later, we hit the lottery. My life turned upside down and no one looked at me the same way again. It was only this year that I told some of the people at school about it and I regretted it as soon as I did.“The upshot is that I have no real idea what normal first-date etiquette entails.”Brock saw an opportunity and went for it.“That. She was 25 years old and a graduate of NYU. She had believed that she would be making $250,000 a year plus stock bonuses when she graduated college. Instead, she had worked at a coffee shop for almost a full year because no one in her field was hiring. The job with Balsam and Associates had been entry level and her advancement had been non-existent (hence her job picking up someone at the airport).“I’m sorry for the confusion,” Phil said earnestly. “I didn’t expect Mr. Balsam to send someone to. I was also wondering what the hell I'd been thinking. "So the two of you were fighting over some girls? That's it?" I nodded my head in affirmation. "That's just stupid, plain and simple stupid. Get up, and go clean the snot off of your face. I'm sick of looking at you like that." When I got back to the kitchen, my father was on the phone with Aunt Betty. He was telling her that he and I had talked the situation over, and that I was sorry for hitting my cousin. He made me talk to Jimmy and.