“Have I ever taken a shot in the dark and been right about something?”
I will preface this story by saying now, in 2025, I would not openly speculate about someone’s sexuality. When this story took place, I was in college, and I didn’t spend a lot of time talking about this topic to be clear, but I played on a sports team and two of my teammates were quote-unquote, “best friends.”
And I wasn’t intending to be malicious or anything when I said it, but I said, “Oh, you are in love with each other,” and they would kind of laugh. But they had a very, like, codependent, just like, attached at the hip — but it was more than that, I thought. And so they would make jokes about how close they were, and I would say, “Well yeah, because you’re in love with each other.” And, um, then, I don’t even know how long later — a period of time later, they pulled me aside — or one of them pulled me aside — and very seriously was like, “You should know that I am in fact in love with this other person.”
And I think it was very anticlimactic for them because I said, “Yes, I know. I’ve been saying that for months, but I’m glad you’ve caught up. Congratulations, happy for you.” So I guess I don’t know if that’s a total shot in the dark because there were context clues, but I was correct about that.