Can I apologise for turning a dinner coin toss into best of nine?
Funny'Are we choosing dinner or qualifying for the Olympics?' my partner asked.
We were choosing between noodles and burgers. I offered a coin toss because we were both hungry and neither wanted a long debate. She picked heads. Heads won. I immediately suggested best of three, smiling.
She agreed. Then I lost best of three and asked for best of five. By the ninth toss we were both annoyed, and she said she no longer cared what we ate. I ordered noodles, which was what I had wanted from the start.
I told myself we were doing a silly routine together. Looking back, she stopped laughing after toss three. I don't think this needs a grand relationship meeting, but 'it was just a joke' now sounds like a very elaborate way to get noodles.
Do I apologise for ignoring the original decision, or ask whether she'd actually wanted burgers?
