Lucian, Poundcake & the Komodo Dragon

I met Lucian on my first day at work, honestly I wasn't too sure if we would get along. He's loud and a bit rough around the edges and he says what's on his mind- sort of like me - so I didn't know if we would click. We had one and only one yelling match, where I stood toe to toe ( if that's possible since he is a giant!) with him and didn't back down. After that we never had another conflict, I think we gained each others respect. But I was still unsure if we would actually get along, until the day that he took off his shoes and danced around the office to Motown, it was then that I knew we would be friends. We talked alot about food, I was always eating trail mix, granola bars, fruit something of that nature and he would comment " You are the eatinest ( yes that was his word ) girl I ever seen " Then he said I needed to eat southern food, scared me just a bit but I was game. The first place we went I don't even know the name of, to me it looked like a house that they had removed the picture window and made it into a drive thru. The sign said barbecue but not barbecue what. I asked Lucian " barbecue what? " he said "it's barbecue just eat it " so I, did barbecue something on a hamburger roll with coleslaw on top. I don't even like coleslaw and it was good! The next time a church group was " selling plates " Lucian said " buy a plate " I said " a plate of what? " he said " just buy a plate " so I did. It was barbecue chicken, potato, collard greens and a biscuit, it was good. A woman dropped them off and as she was leaving she told me " don't let Lucian eat all the pound cake, cake comes with your plate ". I asked him where my cake was he says " she only gave me one piece " then he shows me, it is one piece but it's huge it obviously was meant for both of us. As he's unwrapping " his " piece of cake I grabbed it out of his hand and shoved the whole ( and it was big ) piece of cake in my mouth. The look on his face will live in my memory forever, everyone in the room started laughing as he stood there with his mouth open, shaking his head. When he recovered he said " girl I can't believe you put that whole cake in your mouth" I told him that at first I was thinking about just licking the whole thing but I thought he would have eaten it anyway. He said " your damn right I would that's some good cake ". After we all stopped laughing I told him that the woman from the church had come back in and left more cake in case he didn't let anyone else have any, so he still got to eat cake.
I would come in several times a week with the " you know what I think I saw on the drive in this morning " story. The I would go on and on telling him what I thought I saw, whether or not he wanted to hear it. The list was endless here are just a few: I saw a black bear, his reply " Uh Huh we have them here " I saw a coyote his reply " Uh Huh we have them here " I saw a wolf , His reply " Uh Huh we have them here " I saw a grizzly bear, his reply " Uh Huh we have them here " what ever I said I thought I saw he would always give the same reply, he never asked questions like where did you see it, never made any other comment other than : "Uh Huh we have them here " One day I decided to test him see if he was even paying attention so I said " Lucian you know what I think I saw this morning- a komodo dragon his reply " Uh Huh we have them here " . I guess I got my answer:)