Asking favors

Leina is well-known as a good person to ask a favor. She'll usually do it for you even if you don't deserve it or do a very good job of showing your appreciation. And she won't hold it against you. Which is why she has probably dropped off 75% of the people reading this a the airport at least twice, sometimes when they don't even bring her back a souvenir. And she rarely asks anything back.

So imagine the surprise of your narrator when he answered a phone call from Ms. Leina yesterday. "Tony, can I ask you a big favor?" she asked, quickly muddying the adjective with corrections like "strange" and "unusual." Finally, she cut to the chase.

Leina had been treated to a 49ers game a few months ago, and she had come across a pair of Warriors tickets for the game last night. She thought it would be nicest to call her prior host and invite him to the Warriors game. But lo, he was not home. She still had the tickets, and was now scared that she would not have someone to go with. So she called Tony. And he did her the huge favor of agreeing to be her back up date.

An hour later, her first choice called her back and accepted the invitation. So Tony didn't go. She owes Tony big time for that.