From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jodi Powell. I'm a producer and director at the Moth.

When I first started thinking about hosting this hour, I was drawn to a common theme that rings loudly in moth stories.

Service. I might be extra tuned from my days as a waiter in New York City or from seeing my grandmother always attending to her neighbors far and near in the hills of Jamaica where I grew up.

It feels good to do something on behalf of others, your lifelong partner, the person behind you in the supermarket,

someone you've never met, or someone who shows up unexpectedly at your door and gets a place at your dinner table.

To be in service of is a foundational pillar.

It is universal, whether what's being served is kind words, courage, pasta, or love.

The first story comes from Stacey Bader Curry.

She told it at a recent Grand Slam at the Regent in Los Angeles,

where we partnered with KCRW.

Here's Stacy.

So on our fifth date, Dave and I walked the Silk Road,

which was an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

On our previous dates, we'd been to a wine bar, a concert, a poetry slam the zoo, everywhere

except the one place I really wanted to go to bed.

And there was just like this weird disconnect between these mushy things Dave would say and write to me.

And then this distance he was keeping.

And when we were done with the museum, I was done with this sadistic courtship crap.

And I just wanted to go home.

But then he said, do you want to go to Shake Shack?

And I said, fine, because I love cheeseburgers.

And so we go to Shake Shack and it's crowded and we have to wedge in close at this little

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