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Five More Rules Ben has for Dating Erica

1.) Planning dates can be hard. Anything athletic will just cause you to make a fool of yourself (as comfortably average as you may be, you always just wind up looking bad in comparison), anything too far away will make Erica have to drive (just because it's not a mission doesn't mean she won't drive like it is one), and anything too close by will encourage her relatives to spy on you (I don't even think they're trying to hide it at this point. We all know they're doing it. Though, they probably are just trying to intimidate me. And I would be lying if I said it wasn't working). Also, when you plan dates, things tend to come up. Missions, having to hide from conspiracy theorists, etc. A good rule of thumb is to plan double the amount of dates you actually want to go on and to be prepared for a good deal of those to wind up not working out. And if they do wind up all working out, then you just get to go on double the dates, so it works well either way.

2.) As you know, plummetting is not fun. Every single time I have plummeted, it was with Erica. I'm not saying this is all her fault, but there certainly is a pattern. So, when with Erica, avoid cliffs, bridges, and any tall buildings that happen to be near large bodies of water (puddles are fine).

3.) Avoid llamas. They just bring up bad memories from that air show. Just don't be too obvious that you're avoiding llamas because Erica will notice, and that's worse than just seeing the llamas.

4.) Learn to drive. The sooner, the better. Erica probably won't let you drive very much (she'll likely think you're a bad driver just because you won't drive like a maniac like she does), but it's good to have options. Unfortunately, the only people really available to teach driving right now are the Hales... Actually, maybe it's better (and even perhaps slightly safer) if you just wait on this one.

5.) No shoes inside the house. Does this fit with the other rules? No, not really. But it is something some of the Hales (I'm sure you can guess which ones) are weirdly picky about. I guess they're just too busy spying to have time to clean up any dirt that would get tracked in. Not that there even was that much dirt on my shoes the first time I was told this. (And if a Hale tells you not to do something once, you know it's going to be a potential health hazard if you attempt it again. Needless to say, I did not attempt it again.)