Hey Spence, why
should she remember meeting some guy who said hi while he was walking by? Why would
anyone remember that?
For one thing, she was busy live streaming at the time. And she was happily married...or if you want to go with her current lie, she was in the process of finalizing her separation.
Either way, she was preoccupied. Not the time when you are going to remember the random stranger walking by, even if he does say hi.
I know Stalker--oh, uh, I mean *Spencer* likes to romanticize that moment, but it only meant something TO HIM because it was the first mission in Operation Get Katie.
Only in HIS head was that a significant moment, because he had time to build it up. He was telling himself that if she could just meet him and get to know him, surely they would end up together. That's the reasoning of many stalkers.
I'm actually very glad that Katie has always stuck to her guns on pointing out that it meant more to him than to her at that time. She SHOULDN'T encourage that behavior. That's not one of the ways she proves she doesn't love him, IMO. For once, I feel like she's just being realistic.
This resonates with me so much! Your whole post was fantastic, but that last bit especially really hit home.
I really think the Blabs are dead inside. I'm sure they used to enjoy those organic moments and get genuinely excited about being at the park, no matter how many times they had been before (I mean like waaay back in the day, before they met). Now it seems like they are calling on their memories of what it was like so they can fake it for the camera. Many people have caught on and stopped watching, but many people don't see it because THEY still get excited by those moments.