My thoughts were more on lying down and dying for a few hours.It was hell being on 3rd shift again - even if it was a temporary affair. With Terry gon...e for her honeymoon, and me being the only single lead paramedic the EMS department currently had, you can guess who was volunteered to take over Terry's shifts. Sometimes seniority just didn't help a man out. Seniority sure didn't help with the 3 car crash at midnight or the heart attack call around dawn.Had I known that my new neighbor looked. Of course, he does wander off into space every once in a while." Does he know he's a nerd?"It was his turn to laugh."Yeah. He'd have to be pretty obtuse not to notice. But he doesn't care. He's happy being him." Do you know you're a nerd?"He smiled, put his arms around me and pulled me in."Yeah. And I'm happy being me."He squeezed me as he said this. I don't know who had the bigger smile, Jeff or I."Tell me more." I snuggled against him. "Does he have a sense of humor?" He has a great sense of. " I am." I laughed, and then he laughed. “You are a handsome Dane.”“What is your name?”“Honey.” “Honey. We say ‘honning’ in Dansk. Tell me about this book, Honey.”We found two armchairs near the in-store coffee shop. I told him I was in Manhattan for a solo vacation. He was in the city for work at an international conference.I told him all the Danish words I knew, which were actually all German phrases from old sitcoms. "Guten tag, Fräulein. Fahrvergnügen. Danke."He assured me we could speak in. I took this as a hint that she wanted the ‘date’ to be something special rather than just going out to have dinner and I must admit to feeling a stirring inside when I thought of what she was implying. My imagination went into overdrive when she then invited me to help her with her choice and said that maybe it would be even nicer if I helped her to get ready on the night when she would be going off to meet with him. I was stunned at her suggestion but, at the same time, thought how perverse.