[Question Box] It's someone else's romance, yet it makes me happy.

A.I sure do, Boss.
Here, have a whiskey and water.

When I hear that a young person has found a girlfriend, it makes me happy too.

But you know, Boss, isn't the moment a romance succeeds like the moment a firework goes off with a bang?
Life is long after that, isn't it? If you live together, you'll fight over things like, 'Stop leaving your socks lying around!'

Oh! No way—how did you know that?
You're right—in my house, I'm the one who leaves them lying around.
Haha.

You also argue about who's going to change the toilet paper, don't you?

Just because you get married doesn't mean happiness is automatically renewed, you know.

That's why I watch them and think, 'Oh, this might be the most fun time for them right now.'
Hehe, I've gone and said something unromantic, haven't I?

……Well, even so. If someone shows me photos from their wedding, I start crying right away.
And then, a few years later, they show me photos of their kids, and I cry again.
I cry at their Shichi-Go-San, I cry at their coming-of-age ceremony, and I cry again when I hear they've had a grandchild.
I mean, how much am I going to cry over other people's lives?

Well, that's true. You experience all sorts of hardships, which is why you've become such a fine man like you are, Boss.

When you think of it that way, young people getting married is a happy thing after all, isn't it?

……Would you like another whiskey and water?

Oh, you look like you want it on the rocks.

Is this an answer🥃?

I struggled a little with this answer.

Q. Am I the only one who feels happy? A. That's not the case.
Q. Do you understand this feeling? A. I understand.

That is all that is being asked.
Ultimately, if I answer those two things, I have properly answered the question.

However, if I gave an answer like that, not only the person asking but anyone would be completely turned off.

So, when I finally tried making it sound like a conversation with a snack bar hostess, I somehow got into the groove of it~

'Yes' (Yoshi) is written in katakana.
I'm sure they aren't in their 20s or 30s (sorry for the wild guess).
The tone of 'go get married' (kekkon sei) also gives the impression that the person themselves has been married for a long time.

Once you get married, it's not just fun; the hardships double too.
This person has surely had their share of hardships as well.
So, including those experiences,

"You'll become a great man like the boss (once you get married), right?"

I say, lifting the boss's spirits,

"Oh, you have a rock-and-roll face."
I say, sounding a bit like a woman who knows her way around,
casually trying to get him to order another drink.

I'm basking in the satisfaction of having successfully played the part of a savvy bar mama.

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