Cards on the Table

"Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house." - Daniel Ocean.

With apologies to Juno, I am borrowing her very own format to relate a conversation we had over IM yesterday. Okay, it's excerpts from two conversations, but the second was really a continuation of the first.

Juno: You told him you wanted to like, date him and stuff?
Me: I will tell you exactly. It was very cute. (long tale of how I asked new boy out)
J: I'm so proud of you.
Me: I'm glad I didn't make myself wait for the "perfect moment" or the perfect way to do it.
J: You just have to observe Dan Savage's campground rules.
Me: Campground rules?
J: When you are older than someone to a significant degree, your obligation is to leave them in better shape than you found them.
Me: That is a lovely rule.