First date, maybe 15 minutes in, she asks when I was born.

I tell her the date.

Then she says, “No, what exact time?”

I laughed because I thought she was joking.

She wasn't.

She needed the exact hour and minute to check our compatibility.

I texted my mom because apparently my romantic future depended on hospital records from 30 years ago.

My mom replied, “Why?”

I didn't know how to explain that a stranger needed to know whether the moon approved of dinner 😭