years ago, when i lived on the east coast, soon after i started seeing this girl, she went to california to visit her family. she ended up being bed-ridden while there with an injury, plus was having a horrible time with her family. i decided to mail her cookies to make her feel better. she replied with an email that said "damn it ethan! cookies! what the fuck! will you be my boyfriend?" i think there were some other swears and nonsense in the email. at some point in there, i sent her a mix tape i made. she ended up feeling really hurt that i didn't reply saying "yes i will be your boyfriend," despite the fact that a) her email didn't seem that serious, and b) my mix began and ended with different songs called "i wanna be your boyfriend." we ended up being together for years, and much later i found out that a) she hated cookies and b) the cookies arrived totally crushed due to my shoddy packing job.