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Hook up with Your Friends!?!?

Aug 25, 2024 · 0:58

Summary

A rider throws out a spicy take about hooking up with friends, but Kareem catches the contradiction fast. The stranger claims to disagree with friends-with-benefits situations, then immediately describes their ideal scenario: a slow-burn flirt that gradually heats up from casual friendship to dates to something more. Kareem points out the obvious. "I think you're literally describing falling in love." The rider laughs it off, spinning their logic into a closing PSA: "Hook up with a friend today. 1-800." It's a messy argument that reveals someone who just wants romance with people they actually like, dressed up as relationship philosophy.

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So what's your take? It's more fun to hook up with your friends than strangers? 100% disagree. I think that the long game flirt of having a relationship that was like otherwise just casual or friendly, or like your coworker or your boss, and then like slowly overtire—no, we can't intermix coworkers and friends. Absolutely, coworkers and friends are in the same category. Separate business and pleasure. No, no, no, no, no. The more romance the better, I think.

Oh my goodness. So you're hooking up with friends? The more flirting the better, you said? Hooking up, which is a step further. No, but that's—I think ideally in an ideal world you have like a long period of time where you start to get more and more flirty, and then eventually you like go on a date, and then eventually it ends with—

I think you're literally describing falling in love. Maybe I'm revealing myself to just be like a—someone that prefers to like spend time with people I really, really like instead of people I don't really like. Hook up with a friend today. 1-800. Hook up with a friend.

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