Back when Keeferman was still a youth of 15 years, he possessed certain vulnerabilities. Chief among them were "social anxiety" and not yet having gained the ability to dodge/deflect bullets. To overcome the former, Keeferman contrived to engage the opposite gender via institutionalized social situations. One such situation which had arisen was a friend's church having some kind of Dance. Keeferman thought it might be a chance to meet females. He couldn't dance, but he could hang around and jibberjabber, so he went.

   "A bunch of us met at someone's house, right down the street from the church. We met there and then went over to the church. I have no recollection of the dance part of the evening, but I'm sure it went swell. After the dance, everybody met back at the house again to debrief and then to be picked-up by our respective rides.

   My sidekick Tom and I were to be chauffeured by my mom. Tom and I hung out with people for awhile and then, as things wound down, I made the call. She was having a hard time picking up the directions I was throwing down, so I decided it would be easier for Tom and I to just walk a few blocks to a more distinguishable rendezvous point at the entrance to the neighborhood. There were no "mean streets" in Nashua, New Hampshire (population: 70,000) and, despite the winter weather, Tom and I were quite up to the late-night stroll.

   There was snow on the ground, with more falling, but the streets were clear. There weren't many streetlights, so it was kinda dark. It was crisp and cold and, with the snowflakes falling, it seemed a perfect winter evening. Nice and quiet. Tom and I exchanged few words as we picked our way through small snowdrifts on the edge of the street. The rendezvous point was still a couple of blocks ahead of us when we heard a passing car approach from behind. It slowed as it passed and then stopped thirty feet ahead of us. Some older guys (Juniors? Seniors?) leaned out the window, shouted some forgettable insults (prob'ly something about "nerds"), and then drove on.
-Whatever. Keep walking.