Stranger befriends young man, takes his girl and her friend.
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I was standing in the college courtyard, staring longingly at three pretty girls from afar. I was lost in my fantasies, when a guy came up from behind me and put his hand on my shoulder.
"They are beautiful, aren't they?"
I turned and saw a big guy, who appeared to be a landscaper. He was 6'3" tall with big shoulders and a scruffy beard.
"Yeah." I said dumbly, looking down.
I was a skinny freshman with a plain face; a guy that nobody paid a lot of attention to. I wasn't sure how to react to this attentive stranger.
In his deep, accented voice, he told me I should go talk to them. I told him I never knew what to say to women.
"It doesn't matter what you say." he said simply. "You're scared to talk to th
