I've got this buddy lifelong friend well lifelong we met in high school and he had been a bachelor

Well in his 20s and along comes this girl who's the perfect fit and he's in the early phase where they clearly both like each other but they haven't turned

over their cards yet and it's kind of awkward and also cute and fun and everybody's conspiring to help

make this thing work out kind of like what happened for you know my

relationship when I met the girl who would become my wife and so any rate he wants to take

her and me and Camilla my wife out to his family cabin in the mountains of Colorado and this is a

beautiful cabin just amazing it's got the big stone fireplace in the middle but it takes a while for the stone fireplace to warm up and it's very important to the effect of the whole cabin.

And he wants to woo this girl.

So he tells me, all right, look, let's do this in two shifts.

You and I will drive out from Nebraska to the mountains of Colorado, and we'll get the fire going, and then the girls can show up the next day, and everything will just be perfect. Now, he's not totally telling me it's because he wants to impress her but I totally see what he's doing and

Dude from the minute I said yes and from the minute we got in the car to go light the fire so the rocks would be hot

This guy got tunnel vision. The weather starts

turning bad. There's blowing snow on the interstate as we get into Colorado. The

conditions are horrible. We're doing like 10 miles an hour limping across the high plains of

Colorado heading west to try to get to the mountains and my parents live on the way

near Fort Collins Colorado and we got there hours behind a schedule at like three in the morning. I didn't even ask him. I was like, we're done here. We're going to go in and we're going to crash at my parents place and then obviously we'll go up to your place in the morning and get going. And he was like, like no we're going to drive all the way

through the night why dude why we have to warm up the cabin I don't want it to be

cold we're going to die like we're gonna be like the Donner party and one of us going to eat the other one is

Restrand it in some mountain snowbank. No dude

And he was mad and we got into like a pretty legit one of our biggest fights ever is lifelong friends because he had tunnel vision and for me I'm like dude she likes you this is going to be fine the hot rocks are not going to be the difference but for him that was like the thing that makes it magical and he wanted it to be magical

Ultimately we did not go up to the cabin she got there eventually the rocks were only lukewarm they still fell in love they got married, the rocks were only lukewarm, they still fell in love, they got married,

they had babies, everything worked out beautifully.

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