“Can I get you some more coffee?”

“No thanks Rhonda. I’ve been hitting the stuff too hard tonight.”

“Dag, you’re my favourite usual here at Joe’s Diner, and in all my few years of serving you your cheeseburgers have I ever seen you like this.”

“Its just…oh, never mind Rhonda. I guess its the holidays are getting to me. Make me feel kind of lonely and remind me that I should have told people how I really felt long ago, you know.”

“I know exactly what you mean. I spent three years working here waiting for some dream to come true, but I found something else. Something I could’nt face until today.”

“What’s that?”

“Love.”

“What do you mean? How do you find love in an empty diner on Christmas Eve?”

“Like this.”

“Is that mistletoe?”

“Actually its spinach tied up with ribbon, but I was hoping you wouldn’t notice and would just kiss me anyway.”

“Rhonda, before I do that, there’s something I’ve waited three years to tell you…”

“Yeah Dag?”

“Your cheeseburgers suck.”