The narrator tells us that he's not getting married for the sake of getting married. He's getting married because he wants to be a good person. He wants to have a good time, and he wants everyone to be nice to him. He doesn't want to sit around and be a bad person, so he decides to sit in a reclining chair. The chair is so comfortable, he says, that it makes him feel like a "lost part of myself" . It's so good, he thinks, that he can't even move it. The narrator wants to buy some new kitchen stuff, but he'll have to wait until they're ready to buy it. He wonders if people see him and his new wife as "too free spirited" to go to a big store like that. He also wonders if his friend, who's just gotten married, is too excited to visit a store like this. He remembers that he used to hang out with him in high school, and the two of them used to go out together after school clubs. Now, the narrator says, he hasn't seen him in a long time. He asks the friend if he knows where he is going, but the friend says he'd rather not tell his friends about the wedding because it was a "shotgun whoa." The narrator apologizes for being so busy, and asks if the friend is one of his friends. The friend says no, and then the narrator asks if he can have a chat with the friend alone. The man says no. He has to go find his two lost children.