Rodney knows the truth of his words in this sitation, so he just offers her a bright grin that's only about 12% awkward and ushers her towards the sit-down place that they've chosen. Never let it be said that Rodney ran from something he'd decided he was absolutely going to do. Have to drive him off with a stick. Or an explosion.
Come to think of it, it's usually explosions that do it. Or governments in lieu of explosions.
Like that moment before the tsunami when the tide goes out, the place is mostly empty in the hour before the full dinner rush, and they're able to be seated pretty swiftly. Rodney's trying to be polite and maybe also a little bit smooth, but he's in uncharted territory insomuch as he's not had much recent practice; by the time he'd been back on Earth to go on dates there, his currently relationship had been a bit more advanced than this. He's wrong-footed and trying to impress her at the same time and he's already got that sense of impending doom that this is going to go very poorly.
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Come to think of it, it's usually explosions that do it. Or governments in lieu of explosions.
Like that moment before the tsunami when the tide goes out, the place is mostly empty in the hour before the full dinner rush, and they're able to be seated pretty swiftly. Rodney's trying to be polite and maybe also a little bit smooth, but he's in uncharted territory insomuch as he's not had much recent practice; by the time he'd been back on Earth to go on dates there, his currently relationship had been a bit more advanced than this. He's wrong-footed and trying to impress her at the same time and he's already got that sense of impending doom that this is going to go very poorly.
"So this...place is nice."