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A Bike?
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4/3/2016
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Provo, UT
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Female
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Annapolis, Maryland
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Concord, North Carolina
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22
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Friend and classmate
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Caucasian
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Stephanie is currently single and was at the time studying Japanese at BYU. She loves sushi and is fairly outgoing and willing to try new things.
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Stephanie and I were laughing about some of the bad date stories we had heard when she started telling me her bad date story. I asked her if she could type it up for me so we could use it in our folklore project as her story had become one that we laughed about a lot and frequently referenced.
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In this story Stephanie mentions her love for sushi, a Japanese snack made with sticky rice and some form of vegetable or seafood wrapped together with seaweed. She also mentions pegs which are small handle type bars that fit on the back of a bike for someone to stand on and balance themselves while holding to the\rshoulders of the person actually riding the bike.
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bad date, date, dating, joke, inside jokes, sushi, bike
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How collected: I had Stephanie type up the story and send it to me. \rText: So my Sophomore year at BYU I was taking a Japanese 102 class and we had our oral final where we would file in one at a time, be interviewed, and then the next would go in. The guy who went before me however, waited until I came out to then ask me in Japanese if I had gone out for sushi on Saturday. I had that week, so I enthusiastically responded yes, wondering if he had seen me at the restaurant. He got very excited as well and said that he would pick me up at 7 and asked for my address. I realized that he had confused his grammar and he thought he had asked me to go get sushi with him on Saturday, to which I had accidentally agreed to. I reluctantly offered my address and told him I would see him Saturday. Saturday at 7 I'm looking out the window, wondering where he is, when I see someone on a bicycle struggling up the giant hill leading to my apartment. I began to panic, thinking that there was no way he would pick me up on a bike. He did. He called when he was in the\rparking lot and I go down and sure enough, he was going to try and take me to a restaurant on a bicycle. I checked, there were no pegs for me to stand on or anything. I don't know how exactly he thought this was all going to go down. I quickly offered to drive and upon arriving at the restaurant he moves his menu and chair so that he is sitting directly next to me and proceeds to ask me interview style questions the entire date. Finally, in the middle of my answer to one of his many questions, he yells out "trampolines!" I waited for more and he quietly asks, "do you like them?" I respond with a simple, "yes?" To which he responds, "my sisters don't…" and then literally didn't say a single thing after that. I ended up having a friend call and pretend there was an emergency so that I could leave the date.
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Karen
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Huntington
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Female
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21
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ENG 392
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Eric Eliason