Perhaps it is just me, not able to leave well enough alone. He was standing in the jam-packed subway car with 5 double-bagged Trader Joe’s bags. The gaping bags laid out in plain view what he had purchased: all the trimmings for a holiday dinner. Since we are cheek-by-jowl and I had to look down to see what was in the way, because my feet hit the bags, it was easy to take it all in. Looking back up and being very near to him, I said, ‘Because of what you have in your bags, I’m coming home with you’. He looked momentarily stricken in a rather horrified way and then took a step backward – as if that was a possibility. I let the remark hang mid-air for a second then added with a smile: ‘Just kidding’! He never returned the smile. What was he thinking? That he was seriously going to have to explain me as having followed him home like a lost puppy? He should be so lucky.