Drabble by Kevin Fagan for September 16, 2020

Norman’s going to get fat this way.

“I’ve been near you, but you’ve never noticed me—” Stevie Wonder.

Young, in love, and pre-diabetic.

Remember Norman, there is a thin line between 10 ice creams and stalking.

When I have this love type reaction to someone working in a restaurant/ coffee shop i tend to get tongue tied. I like everything bagels with herb and garlic cream cheese as a break sandwich. Every time this one gorgeous girl served me I asked for a herb and garlic bagel with everything cream cheese. Happened at least 30 times. If another worker took my order it always came out correctly.

So it took ten times for her to notice?

Yes! Now where’s the men’s room, please?

What I would like to know is, where is this mysterious city that has any 24-hour milk shake places, much less, what is it now, four of them, all with drive-thrus?

She noticed. And now she calls 911.

Yesterday I said Norman is an idiot. And I still believe it. He’s thinking about throwing away a girl he has everything in common with, who’s he’s taken a long time to connect with and find. Just because of a girl who’s ‘really pretty’. I believe physical attraction is a nice thing but I would get to know her before I dumped Echo

To her Norman is just a customer. She has NO romantic interest in him.

I think it’s Wendy. They don’t recognize each other with masks.

That’s just brain freeze in panel 4.

That is definitely not Echo.

She only wants your money, Norm.

I could be wrong, as that’s happened a couple of times in my life, but, I have a feeling Wendy is the server.

Was this girl working there when he went there with Echo? This could get awkward. With a capital ‘AWK’.

10 times? In how many hours? Or was it minutes?