Chips Ahoy and And Some Could-Have-Beens

I was a university student struggling financially. I was an irregular student because I had to work my way through college. One day, as I sat on my chair, one of my prettiest classmates noticed me and we locked eyes for a brief moment. She was eating something. I could sense that she did not want to share with me the whatever-it-was that she was eating, but out of politeness, she smiled and offered me some. “This is yummy. I like it. What’s this?”, I asked timidly. “Chips Ahoy”, came the brief reply. There was a grocery store outside our campus, and she informed me that she bought the yummy cookies there. I made a mental note to buy myself some, but I soon learned that the price was too steep for a self-supporting young person like me. I walked away from the store and made a mental note that one day in the future, I would make sure to be able to buy Chips Ahoy cookies anytime I wanted them. Fast forward April 2021. One day, one man came to my place to fix a piece of equ