My junior year in HS (Tampa, FL) I finally got the nerve to ask out this really attractive girl. I go to her house, meet her parents, and pick her up one Friday night for the "dinner and a movie" first date, which is always a good choice, and we're driving to the restaurant. It starts pouring rain, I'm driving down this busy two lane road, and suddenly out of the corner of my eye I see this dog try to run across the road. Unfortunately, he ran right in front of a van in the other lane who hits the dog and then knocked it into the front of my car. She gasped, I hit the brakes, but it was too late. We could hear the 'Ka-Thunka Ka-Thunka" as the dog went under my car. I had nowhere to turn around, it was literally sheets of water coming down outside, and I couldn't believe what had just happened.
We went to the restaurant and I tried to make conversation, but I kept thinking about what had happened, and I think she was thinking about it, too. It just ruined the whole evening. After that, I never even called her again, the whole situation made it impossible.
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