Hello, MJ. I've been thinking a lot about what I wrote and ended up going back and re-writing the end a bit. I realized I presented this guy in a bad light because he didn't make a bigger deal about the cute thing I did, yet he was actually doing his version of a very high-effort, appreciative response. That made me really think that I needed to appreciate his version of sweetness rather than be disappointed that he wasn't sweet in the form that I would have been sweet to him. Probably a good reminder to me to not try to interpret him negatively just because he didn't act exactly as I thought he 'should'...another lesson learned:)