The Stakeout as Male Bonding Experience This story happened to a guy I met off some dating system or other.

→[More:]In his early twenties “Mike” was dating a woman, “Melissa”, whom he suspected was cheating on him. One night a friend of his, “Don”, called him up and said, “Dude, we were down at the bar and we saw Melissa leaving with some guy. Let’s go over to her house and stake her out and see when she comes home.”

Mike said, nah, he didn’t really want to, but Don was persistent, and said things like, “Dude, you gotta do it. I’ve always wanted to stake someone out and this is my big chance. I’ll bring my camera!” Mike yielded, thinking, well, it might be kind of fun to hang out with Don.

So Don came over to Mike’s place, picked him up, and they drove over to Melissa’s house, stopping at a convenience store on the way to load up on chips and pop.

They parked outside Melissa’s house and waited for awhile, scarfing down chips and shooting the breeze.

Then at about midnight, a car pulled up in front of the house and out of it emerged… a guy Mike recognized as Melissa’s ex-fiancé, whom she had told Mike was still in love with her. Ex-fiancé was carrying flowers. Mike grabbed Don’s camera and jumped out of Don’s car. He acted as though he was just a jogger until he got up close to the ex-fiancé, then dropped into a crouch and snapped a picture of him. The flash lit up the entire street. Ex-fiancé was wildly startled, dropped the flowers, jumped in his car and took off.

The rest of the night was uneventful. Melissa finally showed up at about eight the next morning, because she had in fact gone home with some other guy. Mike broke up with her, and her ex-fiancé left her alone after that. But I'm sure the deck didn't remain clear for too long.