"Me too," he said about finding glitter in his underpants, and his reaction mirrored hers exactly. He tried to change the subject slightly. "And in our ears. I wonder if we breathed any in."

In a panic he started thinking about sneezing out clouds of glitter, or glittery boogers, and those, like his underwear, were things he didn't think he should be talking about with a girl.

Given that that subject change had only put him into a tailspin of silly thoughts, he decided to change it again, this time to something far more calming.

"Would you like to visit the food?"