“I was once on a date and as I was switching lanes (in manhattan) I came really close to hitting a taxi cab. She started laughing hyterically.”
Might have been nervous laughter. Many people experience this when in a momentarily scary situation.
“There is the time I arrived an hour early. I asked if I should come back later. The father sat with me for an hour. We did have some common ground to shmooze about. “
Lesson for the future – sit in your car around the corner, but don’t arrive too early.