Come again?

When I got to my bike yesterday, there was a little white note taped to it:
Is she your "girlfriend" or more than that?
You want to call him "significant other," but it seems too clinical, too census-like, too bureaucratic.
You both say "lover" sometimes, but it's kinda raw.
"Mate" is too much like a buddy.
"Companion' is too much like a pet.

So what do you call him? What do you call her?

Read the word unmarried couples have been groping for since the '60s.

(follow the white box at johndishwasher.org)

There were over a hundred bikes locked on the racks near mine. I was the only one who got a note. I learned from the website that I was chosen by one of John Dishwasher's five national emissaries. 'Brian' is the Boston disciple and this note means he was watching me. I have been chosen.

Oh yeah, the word people have been searching for- mascot.