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This evening I had dinner at 大一女's building B food court. I ordered what I always order on any given night: 豬排 or 雞排, 蓋飯. I ordered 泡菜豬肉 tonight and I'm not going to lie, it was vraiment délicieux. Mmmm, yummy :)

Anyway, while I was eating, I looked around the room, and spotted a couple sitting not too far from me. The girl had a laptop on the table, and since I could see the screen I could tell she was on Facebook. Both her hands were placed on the keyboard, concentrating on the screen as she scrolled through her (or perhaps his?) newsfeed. Meanwhile, the guy had his arm around her neck, and pulled her towards him every five or ten seconds to peck her cheek or fondle her neck or something to that effect. It became obvious that he was doing his best to talk to the girl, because he'd break out into laughter every few seconds, pull her towards him, kiss her cheek: repeat about three or four times per ten minutes.

Meanwhile, I was surprised to see the girl had little to no reaction to what her boyfriend was doing. Her hands didn't contact his: they were still steadily scrolling through her newsfeed, her eyes on the screen, hardly communicating with him at all. The guy kept it up, and eventually I guess he got tired, because he stopped talking and his hand fell to her waist, where it stayed, while he looked on at her doings online, obviously getting bored.

I thought about how that couple must have formed. I could imagine the guy trying to woo her, and her finally giving in. I couldn't help but think the guy was acting this way because he had an idea of the kind of girl he was dating: and either didn't think he could measure up or was trying too hard to keep her because she was such a "catch." It made me reminisce (not happily) on one of my past relationships, something similar to this, now that I look back and analyze what happened. I looked at the couple with a sort of annoyance: not so much that they were being all lovey-dovey, but because the lovey-doveyness was so mismatched and the guy was trying way too hard to get something that very obviously won't belong to him in a while. It's only a matter of time.

Maybe 宸儀 is right.