🎂
Took so long to lose his virginity that when he finally did, his friend bought him a cake
🍭
Once mindlessly consumed so many dum-dums that every surface in our living room was covered with wrappers and sticks the next morning
💬
One time at VFA Redux we were coming back to the dorms late at night and a fellow he barely knew shouted out her window that he looked like shit
🍫
Once fell asleep while eating a chocolate bar and woke up covered in melted chocolate
👓
Used to wear fake glasses in a failed attempt to seem smarter
📑
One time I tested a Castle form with the fake name “Larry Bonrad” and he thought it was real and just a crazy coincidence
🐈
Bought a cat to attract women; didn't attract any women; abandoned the cat
📦
The cardboard dimension—enough said
🤙
Early on in their relationship, Erica told me that Barry and Caroline didn’t have sex, they just “did hand stuff and looked deeply into each other’s eyes,” and I had to double-check that she was joking because it was kind of believable
🛌
Once shared a bed with Ethan and requested that they sleep with their heads at opposite ends of the bed
👴
My friend from Wesleyan, who had never met Barry, once told me that based on seeing pictures of him on Instagram she assumed Caroline was marrying “a much older man”
🍟
Once ordered McDonalds via UberEats twice in one night between the hours of 1 and 3am
😘
When we were 25, after a game of spin the bottle, said “I’ve kissed more men this weekend than I have women in my entire life up to this point”