How I used jedi mind tricks to get my girlfriend to tell me what she wanted as a graduation gift when she would say “You don’t have to get me anything” when I asked which really means “I WANT SOMETHING” :3

So for starters, my girlfriend has graduated from a community college with an associates degree and is now transferring to San Francisco State. She just got into the nursing program and I’m really proud of her. It’s really impressive. Impressive!

Now that you know that part, the next proper chapter of this story to skip to would be the QUESTION that I popped. 

“What would you like as a graduation gift?”

To which she replied with

“Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.”

Has anyone else heard that before?

“Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.”

“Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.” “Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.”

“Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.” “Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.”

“Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.” “Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.”

“Oh, you don’t have to get me anything.”

WELL. I decided that I most likely WOULD be getting her something and I was going to get her to tell me. It’s not everyday that you get accepted into nursing school.

To be honest, I didn’t really have a plan. I just saw a window of opportunity, jumped on it, and winged it from there. And it went pretty damned well. ;)

It all started when we were waiting for the bart, and I had liked my friend Andre’s status about Fanime going on in San Jose. I got a notification because someone had commented on it, so I was checking it. My girlfriend looked over my shoulder and curiously asked who that was with the status update about fanime because she was really into fanime. Unfortunately we missed it this year but that’s irrelevant to this story. Anyway from his profile pic she goes

“OMG I KNOW HIM”

and I’m just like

“No way.”

and she was like

“YEAH I TOOK A PHOTO WITH HIM LAST YEAR! HE WAS OLD SPICE GUY!”

(ANDRE IF YOU ARE READING THIS THIS IS WHY I ASKED YOU IF YOU WERE OLD SPICE GUY LOL)

It turns out my friend andre in fact WAS old spice guy. But there was apparently another one. I have seen the photo of her and the old spice guy and it was not my friend Andre. However he did look a lot like him. I remember when I first saw the photo I almost mistook this other old spice guy for Andre.

So after recognizing that my girlfriend was making the exact same mistake I made, I asked if she would like to make a bet. Knowing whether I was right and would win is not a factor. I was merely trying to get her to say what she wanted. Winner get’s whatever they want. She requested 50 burritos! She really wanted 50 burritos.

50 burritos.

After she said that I revealed how I knew that the guy she took a photo with was not my friend andre, and that the whole bet was just a ploy to get her to spit out what she would like right now in life, which I would get for her as her graduation gift.

She got really mad, yet flattered. She got so mad she revealed what she really wanted after she mocked how ridiculous 50 burritos as a graduation gift would be. 

“Why would you get me fifty burritos?!? I was kidding! I don’t really want that I’d rather have blush from Sephora!”

And boom. She wants a blush from Sephora as a graduation gift.

It was a jedi mind trick behind a jedi mind trick.

Boom.

Now excuse me as I go to Sephora and ask for a blush