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"Turn Your Lights On!"

Joy and I were out on a date and she said she'd like to go to Publix to get brownies instead of eating the brownies at the restaurant. So on our way to Publix I was talking to Joy and getting ready to make a left hand turn. In the middle of my monologue Joy says, "turn your lights on" fairly loudly. In response, I turned my lights off and looked at Joy. At that moment Joy was turning from looking out her window so I looked out the window too and I saw two black guys in the car next to ours. Thinking that they had given Joy the reminder about the lights I gave them a thumbs-up and said thank you. At this, they both grinned, nodded enthusiastically, looked at each other, and drove off.

This is funny, because while all of this was going on Joy and I weren't quite aware of all that was happening. See, Joy was actually telling the two guys to turn their lights on. Joy stopped looking at the two guys because they were implying that she was very attractive. Then I turned to thank them for a reminder that was entirely different from the one that I was getting. So these two guys drove off probably thinking that I reacted rather well for hearing something that I did not hear at all.