Angela Mayfield and Jonathan Mayfield

[00:02] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: My name is Jonathan Mayfield. My age is 43. Today's date is January 18, 2021, and I'm in Douglasville, Georgia. My partner today is my spouse, Angela Mayfield.

[00:21] ANGELA MAYFIELD: I am Angela Mayfield. I am also 41 years old. Today's date is January 18, 2021. And my partner today is my spouse, Jonathan Mayfield. Hi.

[00:39] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Hello there. How are you?

[00:41] ANGELA MAYFIELD: I'm well. I'm well. Is there anything that you want to ask me?

[00:48] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Oh, there's several things. Let's see. Where should we start? You know, I always, you know, whenever we tell stories and we're going to talk back and forth to each other, I tell you, I never really get tired of hearing any kind of story that you tell. In fact, sometimes when you're telling me a story for the third or fourth time, I won't even mention it just because I like hearing it again. And so, you know, with that.

[01:19] SPEAKER C: What.

[01:20] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Do you think about maybe talking about our experience, talking on the phone at Delta.

[01:27] ANGELA MAYFIELD: The time that we met? Before we met.

[01:30] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Yes, exactly. And then we'll talk about the time that we met. When we met.

[01:35] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Yeah. Yeah. Those were.

[01:38] SPEAKER C: It's quite.

[01:38] ANGELA MAYFIELD: It's interesting because one of those times was the loneliest moment of my life. And one of those would. One of those times would be like the moment that kind of defined the rest of my life. But back in the year 2000, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, I was a college student in Boston, and I was trying to go home to my hometown in Florida to see my mom for Christmas. And my dog was very, very attached to my dog. I didn't want to go away to college and leave her. She was very old and very important to me, and I was a very poor college student, and I had bought the cheapest possible airline ticket that I could. And as you know, there are sometimes weather delays in the winter around the holiday season, every once in a while. And I got stuck in the airport, bumped from flight to flight. And I had spent, at that point, I think about. I think about 18 hours in the airport in Boston just really wanting to go home. And it looked like that wasn't going to happen. And, man, I remember feeling so sad. I was sleeping on my luggage in the floor of the airport. It was cold outside, you know, and. And I had been told I had been promised that I was on the next flight out. I was going to go home that night. I was on the very next flight. And then turns out I wasn't on the next flight. And that was the last flight out of the Night. And I sort of just slid down a wall and sat there, cried a minute. And I did the thing. I did the only thing I knew to do, which was call my airline's customer service 1-800-number, and. Sobbing. I called my airline's customer service number, and of course, it was answered. And what would the person on the other end have said?

[04:06] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Delta Airlines, this is Jonathan Mayfield. How may I help you?

[04:11] ANGELA MAYFIELD: And at that point on my. You know, years ago, my cell phone was prepaid, you know, because, again, I was so poor, so it wasn't costing me minutes, which was good. And I kind of recall just sobbing into the phone, I just want to go home. And I'm sure at some point it provided a. A confirmation number. And this nice guy on the other end said, oh, Ms. Warner, which was my name. I'm so sorry that your holiday season is starting out like this and that you really want to go home. I know this is terrible, but I promise you that I won't hang up until I know for sure that you're on a plane. Can you work with me? And I said, and what was interesting is that he never told me to calm down, because I'm not.

[05:06] SPEAKER C: What.

[05:06] ANGELA MAYFIELD: You know, the quickest way for me to not calm down is to tell me to calm down. That's a guarantee that I'm.

[05:14] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Which. Which is. Which is. Which is kind of like you're always guaranteed. If you tell me to hurry up.

[05:21] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Yeah, I'm gonna say for me to take twice as long. So this. This man, this person, this customer service rep on the phones working the night before Christmas Eve. So it would have been like, you know, the midnight shift, December 23rd of 2000. This. This guy said, can you work with me? Not calm down and stop crying, but can you work with me? And I said, okay. And. And I heard his mechanical keyboard, those old IBM keyboards that go clackity, clackity, clack. And I heard it through the phone, and the next thing I knew, I was confirmed on the first flight out in the morning. And I got on the plane. So, I mean, I only had to spend a few more hours in the airport. I was like, okay, I'm going to get the first flight out. So I got on the plane, and I realized that this very nice guy who had talked me down off the Christmas travel ledge, he'd asked me questions about what I was going to do in Florida and what I was studying in Boston. So long after I've hung up with him, I get on the plane, and I realize that he's put me in first class. It was my first time in first class. Again, I think I paid $88 for that plane ticket. You know, pre September 11th flight prices. It had the lowest possible grade ticket. So I was used to being in the back of the plane with like, you know, where the screen doors are. And this very nice customer service rep had confirmed me in first class. And I did not know what that cabin even looked like. And, and I don't remember the flight because I slept through the whole thing and woke up thinking we were taking off, but we were actually landing. And never, I never forgot it. It was one of the saddest, loneliest moments of my life when I had no resources. I was so poor as a first generation college student that even though I could see from Logan Airport, I could look out the windows and I could see based on the Boston skyline where my apartment was within the city of Boston. I didn't have cab fare to get back to my apartment, and I didn't have enough money to get myself fed in the airport. Like, I needed to get on the plane and go home, back to my hometown where there was food in my mom's fridge where I could feed myself. And so I felt so stranded in a place that is not a place. It's so liminal that there's, you know, surrounded by strangers and feeling very vulnerable. There's no, there's no cubby hole that you can go hide in in the airport and take a nap. I felt so exposed and so vulnerable. And it was a really sad moment. And I never forgot that. Like, it was all better when I got on the plane and I was in first class and I think I ate so many biscoffs. I ate all the snacks. Just all the snacks. Like, you know, before even take off, they're giving me snacks. What is this world of luxury in first class? What is this? And it was really kind of amazing. You know, I remember telling my friends about it and my mom, as soon as I landed in Orlando, guess what happened? I got to be in first class. It was so cool. And. And I never again, I never forgot this like tiny kindness from a guy with, you know, with a lovely radio voice, kind of a. This not really a drawl, not really a twang, but this sort of. This sort of like dark, honeyed voice.

[09:24] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Where's he from?

[09:26] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Yeah, I don't know, but Delta's headquartered in Atlanta and you know, I don't know. He's. He sounds like maybe he's my age. You know, it just, It Sounded, you know, I mean, he was that guy, whoever that guy on the other end of the phone was, he was. You know, he was rescuing me that day. So no matter what he did, he was going to be perfect. But many years passed, and I never forgot him.

[09:51] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Let me ask you this, because I've never really thought about this before until now that we're telling the story, which never gets old. But what do you, as best you can remember, about what time of night was it that you called? Because I thought of an interesting detail. Wasn't it after midnight?

[10:14] ANGELA MAYFIELD: It would have been after midnight. Most likely it would have been after midnight. Now, as you recall, because we've discussed this before, I was supposed to be on the last flight out, and the last Delta flight, which was my airline, the last Delta flight had already left, and I was bumped from that flight again because I had the lowest possible ticket grade. And the Delta ticket agent, who had had enough of, like, she had had a day. I'd had a day, too, but she had also very clearly had a day dealing with a lot of people who, like me, had also. And so she said, okay, so I can't get you on this Delta flight, but there's another airline at a different terminal in Boston in Logan, which means you have to go outside in the snow and run across a construction zone to get to this other terminal. She said, I've confirmed you on that on this other airline, and they've got a seat for you. And so if you can run over there really quickly, it's. It's like they've got a flight going out at like, 11:40 at night. So you can make it if you run. Okay. Okay, here I go. So she handed me.

[11:33] SPEAKER C: And I don't know what these are called.

[11:35] ANGELA MAYFIELD: I'm sure you know, it was like a carbon copy voucher. It looked like an old credit card machine thing that. Almost like an imprint or like a paper check that you would sign. She handed me this voucher and said, go give this to them. They'll let you on their plane. And I said, okay. And I did. And that. I. That didn't work.

[11:59] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: It's a. It's a voucher internally. We would call it a Rule 240. It's. It's just. And then that. That little strip there was basically just an accounting thing for them. So you would have handed that to that other airline, you know, U.S. air or whoever it was. And then when they turned to that end, they would then call back, go back to Delta kind of in the back office sort of area and get their money back.

[12:26] ANGELA MAYFIELD: So you know that this is called a rule. What was it, 240. You know that because you worked at Delta.

[12:34] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Right, right.

[12:35] ANGELA MAYFIELD: And because what did you do there?

[12:38] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: I answered phones. And that's why I was asking you about the time of day, because now I typically worked afternoons and nights as a reservations agent. Started there in 1998 and answered phones up until 2005, off and on. And my shift was normally one of those that began like in the early afternoon and ended in the early evening, like around 9:00 or so. However, in this case, and I do remember, you know, around that time, you know, around 2000, 2001, you know, you can swap shifts with your coworkers. And so I had just happened to swap with someone who worked a midnight shift. So the chances, not only the chances of us actually having spoken on the phone there were already slim. It was already even more unlikely that that was going to happen because I wasn't even working my regular shift. And that would have been, you know, to swap my prized afternoon shift for something, you know, for a midnight shift must have meant I was doing someone a favor. And that wouldn't have happened often and certainly glad it did happen at this time. But just hearing you talk about it and as many times we told the story, I just had just then remembered that it's like, wow, yeah, I was working that late and that already two years into my career there, I was able to hold a shift outside of midnight. So at that point, if you're working a midnight shift, it's because you wanted to. And so swapping with someone and narrowing that chance that we could have spoken, that sort of pre meet unknowing to each other, that is even more rare.

[14:28] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Well, it doesn't surprise me that you would have swapped shifts right before Christmas with somebody else. Being young as you were and unattached, with no children. Children. I, you know, I know you and I know your kindness enough that you would absolutely have switched with someone who perhaps had family, you know, or kids or something, to, you know, for a holiday purpose. Like, I know you, you would have done that, but I didn't know it at the time. So I got home, obviously, and got to see my dog. And then what was it nine years later? I. Well, I mean, what, we met. We met again. Well, we met the first time nine years after that. So I've always kind of wondered because I know what it's like on my end when I met you. I mean, we've been married now Five years. And I remember exactly. I remember what I was wearing the night we met, but I don't know what you remember about that night. So can you tell me what it was like when that, that first. Not really even a date.

[15:40] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Absolutely. So one. What I remember is, you know, we had gotten. We had met through. Okay, stupid.

[15:52] ANGELA MAYFIELD: A dating site.

[15:53] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Yes, the dating site known as OkCupid, you know, for the record. But we had met there and I was lucky enough to get to chat with you several times and. And we decided to exchange phone numbers at that point and email addresses and. Oh yeah, we started emailing each other.

[16:14] ANGELA MAYFIELD: They were good. Those were great emails, weren't they?

[16:17] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: They were. We recently reread them because I did save all of them. And so we. And then of course graduated then to the phone number so that we could text and, you know, it was always a butterfly moment when I would receive that text from you. And there was one night in particular we were talking and we said, hey, why don't we get together and, you know, just sit and talk somewhere and get to know each other even more. And so I actually. And looking back, it's so funny that we both felt comfortable doing this. We, we. You came over to my house and we met. I met you outside or right at the door, and we basically just sort of stayed outside. We got in my car and turned it on and listened to some music and had a great conversation. Now I remember very vividly waiting for you to come over. And the feeling, I mean, it was, you know, it was butterflies and it was. It was so many butterflies in my stomach that, you know, I'm not going to say that I almost felt sick, but I mean, it was, there was a. There was, there was a physical impediment, you know, going on because of that. So. But it was good, you know, it was exciting. And so when you came over, you know, it didn't really stop that much either. It just got a little more comfortable. But it was, it was extremely exciting. You know, I had never been that excited about anything in a long time at that point. So we did. We got in the car and we started chit chatting about our day, I think is where we started. And you know, correct me if I'm getting some of this wrong, but, you know, we were talking about our days and stuff like that and you know, you had asked, we had eventually got into, you know, what do you do? And at that point I had, I had been out of reservations for several years. You know, I started at Delta in 1998 and then worked in reservation sales. And then at around 2005, I had an opportunity to follow a couple of my friends from res that jumped over to the IT department to start testing all the stuff we were selling and software wise. And so, you know, I'd been over there from 2005 up until 2009 when we met for the first time in Face to Face. And so I'm telling you the history of, you know, where I'm working and a little bit of the background. And I believe that's when you told me about some of your loyalties.

[19:05] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Yeah, my brand loyalties, yes, that I said that I drink Coca Cola. And at the time, at the time I said I smoke Marlboro Lights and I fly Delta. I'm not brand loyal to much, but I drink Coke, I smoke Marlboros and I fly Delta, which I'm embarrassed even to say now.

[19:25] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Well, no, I mean. Well, I mean it was, it was, it was inconsequential to me at the time. You know, you know, hearing all that was just like, well, great, you know, I mean, aside from the smoking, I mean those, those are my brand loyalties too. And you know, my favorite airline, for obvious reasons. And you know, it was, it was, it was just thrilling, you know, to hear that. And, and in hearing you and you know, if you, if you, if you'd rather tell this, please interrupt me. But like I just remember, you know, there was that moment you were like, oh yeah. And it was almost like a, like a throwaway aside sort of statement. You said, oh yeah, you know, I not brand loyal to very many things. But you know, like you said, I drank Coca Cola, I fly Delta Airlines, I smoked Marlboros. But like you had said, and I'll tell you, you said, a brand loyal to Delta, and I'll tell you why. There was this one time, and then of course you told the story that we just, that we just told. And, and that was the point when I said, huh, about what year was that? About what time of day was that? And I said, what? And I can't remember exactly how I phrased it, but I bet that was about the point. I was just like, you know, there's a very high likelihood that that was me that you spoke to on the phone.

[20:53] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Well, it's so interesting to me that you're, that, that's how you. And you're not wrong. But it's interesting that those are the, those are the aspects of that first night that we met that you remember because though it happened the same. And I don't. I don't have any, you know, I don't remember it any differently than you do. My perspective is a little bit different. It's kind of like a. It's a bit of a Rashomon kind of thing where the same thing happens from a different perspective. So I came over to your house because I didn't want you to know where I lived yet because I was a woman and I was new to Georgia. I came here as a grant writer for what I thought would be a three month gig. And I stayed longer than three months and I was lonely and so was like, well, I guess I don't know how to meet people. You know, I was freelancing. I didn't have an office, so I didn't have co workers. I wasn't in college, so I didn't have classmates. So how do you even meet new people? Hence, you know, a dating site. But I also felt un. I don't want to say unsafe, but certainly very cautious right about my own safety. So I came over to your house. Funny enough, we lived in the same town, which everybody, I mean, you know this. Everybody in the suburbs around Atlanta says that they live in Atlanta when they really don't. You know, everybody says, oh, I live in Atlanta, when the reality is they live in Dunwoody or they live in Forsyth or something. And we both, I think on our profile said Atlanta. But turns out we live 22 miles west of Atlanta in Douglasville, about four and a half miles apart from each other is where we lived. And so I couldn't believe my luck that I had found somebody who was in this town that I lived in that I'd never lived in before and where I didn't know anybody. And so I came over to your house because I wanted to know where you lived without you knowing where I lived. And I didn't come inside your house because I didn't want to end up, you know, in several bags, in pieces because I didn't know you. And I parked in your driveway behind your car so that you could not kidnap me. And we sat in your car and I think that we probably idled and probably burned like a half tank of gas in your old Honda Civic. I remember the digital dash and the blue light it cast on your face. And we sat there and we listened to music and we talked. And I told you the story. I said, let me tell you this story about why I love Delta so much. And I remember the disbelief that you were like, wait, what? Are you sure? Because I remembered everything about that night, including that this very kind gentleman on the phone, this very kind Delta customer service, this res agent, that his name was Jonathan. I remembered all of this. And you at the time, having literally just met me, you know, like, not even an hour before you, you were rightfully skeptical. But what I think you've probably now come to realize is that I kind of inherited my dad's weird, uncanny situational memory, you know, this episodic memory. So I. That's why I remember the shoes that I was wearing that. That were just like slides, and I got ice in them when I ran from one terminal to the other that night. Like, I got slush in my shoes, and I remember the color of my giant LL Bean duffel bag and all of those things. I remember everything about that. And so, of course, yes, I remember that guy's name was Jonathan. And you went, that's probably me. And I was like, no way. And you said, yeah. And then I was like, well, that's. Well, that's a meet cute. That is a movie quality meet cute. But then. But then it went on, and there were other things and other connections. I think the one that really shook me was when I found out that. That, you know, your grandmother, your beloved grandmother, Memaw beach, who I never. I never had the pleasure of meeting her. And yet I still call her Mimaw beach because I feel such an attachment to her. Come to find out, she and my father also now passed, were well acquainted. She was his favorite diner waitress for many, many years when he worked air cargo at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport. And she was a waitress for 33 years at the Dwarf Wharf house in Hapeville. And so my dad. My dad knew your grandma and loved her dearly. And so, I mean, those small connections of all the people and all the places. I can't believe I found you. And, like, parts of us had been finding each other before we found each other. Did you believe in, like, fate, fated love before. Before we met? Did you. And do you even now, or do you think that we made this work ourselves? Do you think that this is orchestrated by, you know, was this predestined or is this just dang good luck on our part.

[26:46] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: You know, for many things. And you know this very well because of how I was taught by, well, Memaw Beach. And I always have believed that, you know, you're responsible for the outcomes of your own actions. And so if you work really hard, you get that promotion. If you do the really hard work, then you get that payoff, and I always did. But when it came to that kind of personal connection, you know, I never could shake the feeling that there was something more to it. Like, even before we met, that there was, you know, there is this connection, and there is the possibility of, you know, a one soulmate, or maybe there's a small group of people that maybe you are destined to connect with. And if you do that, things are going to go really right. When I think about it then, you know, it did seem, you know, I'm not going to say too good to be true. It just seemed really good. It sounds. And so it made me believe in that even more when all of a sudden we started seeing all these connections. And it's not so much that we had a million things in common. I mean, we do. We have several things in common, but we have a whole lot of things not in common. And the great thing about that part is. And what I learned very, very early on was just how much I loved learning all this stuff from you. And so, you know, like. Like I would tell my friend Ed at the time, you know, I would. I would start referring to you not by your name, but as Brain Girl. So I saw the Brain Girl the other night, and she was telling me about X. But the more, you know, the more I think about it, the more I've thought about it over the years. Yeah, I felt. I feel like there was something nudging us. I don't know what it. What or who it is, but. And frankly, I don't care because it happened, and that's all that really matters to me. But, yeah, I feel like there might have been extra forces behind it.

[28:59] ANGELA MAYFIELD: I feel like. I mean, it hasn't always been perfect. We took a break for a little while. We had a temporary split for a year or so, and then, of course, came back into each other's lives. You know, it has not always been easy, but I think that there was some aspect of just the unlikeliness of our initial connection and then just, you know, just the way that we got along as people, how kind you are and how much we just enjoy each other's company, that even in the hard times, it seemed. It seemed like a story worth fighting for. And so it seemed like it was worth the effort. Like, you know, and then later, even.

[29:56] SPEAKER C: After we were, you know, permanently together.

[29:58] ANGELA MAYFIELD: And bonded for life, those hard times, you know, I helped nurse your mother through the last year of her life, and. And you trusted me with her, which.

[30:14] SPEAKER C: Is so special to me, and I hate that she was sick because, God, I loved your mom. Oh, I loved you.

[30:22] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Nobody got a mother in law like me.

[30:24] SPEAKER C: Nobody has a mother in law like my mother in law. And I miss her so much. But that last year that we got together, I got to see you with your mother and how you cared for her. And though of course I'm not. Of course I'm not happy for her.

[30:44] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Illness, the heart disease that would eventually.

[30:48] SPEAKER C: Take her life in the last year of her life, I feel so glad that I got to see that part.

[30:55] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Of you because I never could have seen it in any other capacity. There's no, you know, to see that.

[31:00] SPEAKER C: Sort of tenderness that you had for your mom. A tenderness and an authority of. I mean, you were a really good next of kin when it comes to doctors and hospitals. And so, you know, my trust in you was so great because of that. And then, you know, just five months after we were married, gosh, five, six months after we were married, I almost died in the same hospital where your.

[31:29] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Mother would, you know, had just passed not long before then. So, you know, we almost didn't make it to our first anniversary.

[31:39] SPEAKER C: We did.

[31:40] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Obviously, I'm still here. But then by the end of that.

[31:42] SPEAKER C: Year of 2016.

[31:46] ANGELA MAYFIELD: My dad was dying of cancer that we didn't know about. And so I felt like I got. Watching you care for my dad, you know, a big man, a strapping, stout man, tall and muscular. His whole life he'd been like, you know, Paul Bunyan, but make it Florida, man. You know, like, watching, watching you. Like, well, not watching, but like knowing that you had helped to lift him off the commode when he was too weak to do it himself and to help dress him, to save.

[32:25] SPEAKER C: To save me this. To save me the memory of having to see my dad that way. And that's what I did for your. For you and your mom. I remember, you know, doing her hair and bathing her. And I did it out of love for her, but also so that you wouldn't have to have that memory of your mom. So I'm so thankful in so many ways for the hard times, even. And that meet cute story in the beginning seems like. Seems so inconsequential in comparison to the tough times. But even during the tough times, it seemed like that story, once you've cared for one another's dying parents and you found each other in the most cinematic of all possible ways, you don't fight about. You don't fight about like, you know, wallpaper anymore. You don't fight about money. I Don't feel like we've ever had a fight, do you?

[33:30] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: No. Not one that we didn't solve before we each walked away, you know, and, you know, early on when there was like, even. Even the hint of some little, you know. Right. Can't even call it fight, some kind of disagreement about what to hang on the wall or whatever. You know, after we've gone through that, it's, you know, yeah, that sounds great. Whatever you want to do. It's like it doesn't matter to me. Well, I should say it does matter to me. But the only thing that matters about it now is that, is that you're happy. And when you talk about going through the tough times, and that was what we were talking about recently too, with, you know, living through what we're living through right now, which is the, the COVID 19 pandemic. And, you know, here we are in January 2021. Back in March of 2020, me and everybody else that I work with and, you know, millions of other people around the globe started working from home, sort of being isolated at home. And, you know, we, we. We still are. And that has. And you know, we read about it all the time, about how the hard that's been for people, some of the, you know, very horrible statistics which are on the rise because of that, whether it be, you know, domestic situations and whatnot. But for us, it's not really. It really hasn't been that way, has it?

[35:00] ANGELA MAYFIELD: I. Oh, gosh, I feel guilty saying this because I know that it's that, you know, for people who have kids at home and are doing distance learning and for multi generational families and stuff, that it is really difficult to be under one roof with a lot of people. But my God, baby, I hope, I hope this never changes. I don't. Like, all I want to do is just hang out with you for the rest of my life. That's. I just.

[35:26] SPEAKER C: I love that we get. I love that we get to spend all day together. I'm never bored of you. I'm never tired. Like, I, I just. I never get tired of you. I hope you never get tired of me.

[35:40] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Because I just.

[35:41] SPEAKER C: I. I'm so glad I found you.

[35:44] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Not a chance. No. No chance of, of ever getting bored. I mean, if we haven't by now, it ain't gonna happen, you know, and with everything that we've been through, it just makes us, you know, just this. It just makes our connection much stronger. And, you know. Yeah, I don't want it to end either. And by all accounts, it's not going to end anytime soon. So I think.

[36:08] SPEAKER C: I think the best thing about. I think the best thing about our marriage for me, aside from the fact that I get to spend so much time with you, is just how kind we are to each other. I wasn't really raised in a kind family. A family this is. Please and thank you to each other. And I was, you know, like, you didn't have to tell the people that.

[36:31] ANGELA MAYFIELD: You love, please and thank you, because they have to love you no matter what. But you are so.

[36:36] SPEAKER C: You are so kind to me, and I love you for it.

[36:44] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Well, it's the easiest thing I ever have to do.

[36:48] SPEAKER C: Thank you for being. Thank you for saving me that. I've never thanked you for that, have I? Thank you for saving me that night in the airport. I was so lonely, and you. I. I'm not lonely anymore. Thank you for being my husband.

[37:11] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Well, it's the easiest thing I've ever had to do, so you're welcome. And thank you in return because, you know, I'm by no means the easiest person in the world to get along with. I'm sure there's more difficult out there, but, you know, it's something about when we're together, though, that's when the easy part starts.

[37:32] SPEAKER C: No. Being married to you is as easy.

[37:34] ANGELA MAYFIELD: As falling off a log. It's like. It's like putting on your favorite pair of jeans for the second time since you washed them is the easiest thing in the world.

[37:40] SPEAKER C: I'm so glad that we're together.

[37:43] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: You know, touching back on kind of what I was saying a little bit earlier, you know, when I brought up your nickname of Brain Girl, you know, being able to. It was. It was kind of funny because, you know, there were times early on and eventually you just. You just, you know, stopped. Not that you were ever resisting, really, but you just rolled with it. Because if we would watch a movie or be listening to a song or read some article somewhere, and there was something I didn't. I wasn't familiar with, you know, like, I didn't know what a MacGuffin was. And you. We had seen a movie, I can't fully remember, it might have been one of the Star Trek movies or something. And you were talking about, like, oh, that was a very, you know, nice use of a MacGuffin there. And I was just like, oh, yeah, what is. I've seen that before. What does that mean? What is. What is that from?

[38:44] ANGELA MAYFIELD: And.

[38:46] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: And, you know, at first you were like, well, you know, you can. You can look it up. You can. You can see what it is. And I was just like, no, well, that's not fun. I want to hear you tell me what it is, you know, and that's. That sort of stayed true even now, even to this day, where, you know, I'd much rather hear it from you. Not only because, you know, I want to learn, but, you know, it's just much more fun to hear it coming from you.

[39:13] SPEAKER C: You're my favorite person.

[39:17] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Well, you're mine, too.

[39:21] SPEAKER C: Thank you.

[39:22] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: We should get married.

[39:23] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Hey, we should get married. Wouldn't it be fun if we got. It'll be.

[39:27] SPEAKER C: It'll be.

[39:27] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Is it coming up on five or six years?

[39:29] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Coming up on six this year.

[39:31] SPEAKER C: Wow.

[39:32] ANGELA MAYFIELD: It's been so fast.

[39:34] SPEAKER C: I need 50 more at least.

[39:37] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: I think we could probably arrange something like that.

[39:40] SPEAKER C: Thank you for doing this interview with me.

[39:43] JONATHAN MAYFIELD: Thank you for making it happen. I'm just glad that this can live somewhere.

[39:49] SPEAKER C: Yeah.

[39:54] ANGELA MAYFIELD: Hey, we.