The Tale of the Snuggy Bunny

As much machismo as C-Rock exudes now, he has come a long way when it comes to getting in touch with his sensitive side. In the beginning, the littlest thing would provoke his manly ego to come bursting out. 

"Oh nice! Are those new shoes?" 

"NO. I found them sitting beside the dumpster...

I don't get new shoes." 

"C-Rock, come cuddle with me!"

"Baby, I'm sorry, but cuddling is for assholes."

I can't resist a good practical joke, especially when the fruit is so low hanging. The tale of the Snuggy Bunny is from our first month of dating... so the target was still quite large. 


John is C-Rock's best friend since grade school - an eerily similar, though brunette, version of C-Rock. The pair were planning a road trip and C-Rock had asked if I could burn him a cd for the ride (no CD drive on the ol' 88 Dell at the Dungeon). He selected songs from my library and once the disc was ready, asked if I had a spare case. I did, so I went into the other room with his new road trip cd and brought it back in an opaque case.

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John was driving and it wasn't until about 45 minutes down the road that C-Rock pulled the cd from his bag. He opened the case to find that I had personalized the disc with hearts, flowers, and a title reading, "Snuggy Bunny's Playlist" (the most absurd, cloying pet-name I had improvised on the spot while clutching my stash of sharpies and trying not let him hear me cracking up). He was traumatized. C-Rock would never be caught dead with anything resembling a heart and certainly not with anything referencing bunnies... most especially in front of John.  Seeing no other escape (as he'd already spent a quarter hour talking up his stellar playlist) he quickly shoved the disc in John's player and tried to forget all about it.


And forget all about it he did as he forgot to eject the disc and take it with him at the end of the trip. John didn't call C-Rock for a month - though the correlation has never been firmly established. The pet name did eventually leak to the group which of course ensured that it stuck, though this was never my original intention. We now have expanded to many forms including Snugs, Snuggy B, Snuggaversary, and the like. And that kiddies, is the true tale of the Snuggy Bunny.