The Order of the Poison Oak

Happy stuff is really pretty boring for everyone except the people involved (this is the reason why graduation ceremonies are boring but car crashes sren't, and why newspapers write about floods and robberies, but not sunsets and birthday parties).

For a second, I wasn’t sure what else to say. I wanted to stand up in that rowboat and shout that we’d be together forever, because I thought it might make him feel better, and also because that’s the way I felt. But that seemed wrong somehow. Promising him my undying love because I thought it would make him feel better was just a variation on the whole dating-him-out-of-pity thing. It was the exact opposite of what he was asking me for. Plus you’re never supposed to stand up in a rowboat.

I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite? What in the world would you talk about?