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TIFU by leaning in for a kiss and getting rejected by a bag of chips

So this happened a few months ago and I still think about it at 3am sometimes.

I had been seeing this girl for a few weeks. Nothing official yet but there was definitely something there. We'd been texting constantly, hanging out, doing that thing where you sit closer and closer each time until you're basically on top of each other.

So she invites me over to her place to watch a movie. Classic. I know what this means. Or at least I thought I did.

We're on the couch, movie is on, neither of us is actually watching the movie. We're just talking and laughing and she keeps looking at me in that way. You know the way. The way that says something is about to happen.

At some point there's this pause in the conversation. One of those loaded silences. She turns to face me, eyes soft, lips slightly parted, leaning in just a little.

I think: this is it. This is the moment. I have read every single signal correctly and I am about to have my rom-com moment.

I lean in.

She reaches past me.

Grabs the bag of chips that was sitting on the couch cushion behind my head.

I am now six inches from her face with my eyes half closed and absolutely nowhere to go.

She looks at me. I look at her. She looks at the chips. I look at the chips.

She offers me some chips.

I take some chips.

And this is where the real fuckup begins. After that moment I completely shut down. Every time it seemed like there was another good moment - I remembered the chips and backed off. What if I'm misreading it again? What if she just wants some water? What if there's something else behind my head that she needs?

We sat through the entire movie. She walked me to the door. We stood there awkwardly for a moment. I said "okay well see you around" and left.

No kiss. The whole evening. Because of a bag of chips.

I went home that night and just stared at the ceiling.

TL;DR: Leaned in for a kiss, she reached past me for a bag of chips, got so spooked that I spent the rest of the evening frozen like a statue and went home with nothing. The chips won.

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