FOR LOVE OR PEANUT BUTTER

How Hot Neighbor And Dick Pic Dude Got To Know Me Better

Kelly Shanley
Slackjaw
8 min readOct 14, 2021

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Illustration by Emily Clouse

Wondering who Hot Neighbor and Dick Pic Dude are? See below for some handy recaps and links to the full stories if you need to catch up! If you’re all caught up, thank you for reading every week! You’ll get your reward in heaven. (That’s what my grandpa always said and he seemed to know his stuff.)

Suitor C: Carter is the hot neighbor I met after he rescued a neighbor lady’s trashcans from a hungry bear. Neighbor lady turned out to be quite the wing-woman and told him all about me (especially that I was single). He quickly found me on Facebook and asked me out for drinks. They went well. He was tall and handsome and rode a motorcycle and ended the date — which took place at an actual restaurant — by inviting me to his place for dinner the next day.

Suitor D: Dex is the one who sent me non-dick pics (just famous dudes named Richard, no throbbing members) and created a bit between us that would go on for years. He did improv with my best friend so I had known him for a while, and even though I thought he was cute, he was married and very much off-limits. We met up to go surfing with friends and accidentally spent an entire day together, just the two of us, during which he informed me that he was now separated from his wife. I did not want to date a guy…

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Kelly Shanley
Slackjaw

LA based writer/podcaster/comedian/mountain girl at heart. Outdoor lover, world traveler, loud laugher. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kelly-shanley