Every time there’s drama in a romcom it feels dumb, forced, or out of character, but this... this is brilliantly set up, unbelievably so. It’s inline with the characters, it’s not egregiously cliché or forced, and it wasn’t just “I misheard you”.
This is pretty normal for someone with a mindset like him, like observe when he was reading the manga "What will you do if you're mistaken?" that's the mind of people who wants to play it safe works.
And what is SRS? I googled it but the only thing I found were airbags.