"if I get a sense that they are appreciated"."

Ah! So maybe one of the reasons major acts of sweetness have sort of gone extinct in dating in our age bracket is because the recipients weren't showing enough appreciation, so people stopped doing them. Dang the men and women who ruined it for the rest of us and led to the extinction of sweetness!

I'll say...sometimes I feel like I need...an outlet for my sweetness, some sort of dumping ground, so if that means it leaks out on some friends on the other side of the continent, so be it;)

And YES--my 80-year-old neighbors and I do want the creepy dude in the trench coat blaring his boombox on my porch. So long as it's before 430pm because that's when Wheel of Fortune comes on:):):);)