:26:01
But thank you for the compliment of coming over.
:26:04
You are welcome.
So do you like Cuban food?
:26:07
Chip, seriously, that was not a code
for "I wish you try harder".
:26:11
Are you always so shutdown,
and afraid that the right man might make you feel like...
:26:15
Like a natural woman?
:26:17
Sorry, I am late, honey. I could get a cab.
:26:19
How was the meeting?
:26:21
Oh well, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Nice to meet you, Chip.
:26:32
You too.
:26:36
Now on the one hand it is very difficult for a man
to even speak to someone who looks like you.
:26:41
But on the other hand, should that be your problem?
:26:44
So life is kind of hard all around.
:26:48
Well, not if you pay attention.
:26:52
I mean you send out all the right signals.
:26:53
No earrings, heels under two inches, your hairs pulled back.
:26:57
You wear reading glasses, but no book.
:26:59
Drinking a grey goose martini, which means you have a hell of a week,
and beer just wouldn't do it.
:27:04
If that wasn't enough, there is always the "fuck-off"
that you have stamped on your forehead.
:27:09
Because who is gonna believe that there is man out there
that can sit down beside a woman he does not know,
:27:13
and genuinely be interested in who she is,
what she does, without his own agenda.
:27:18
I wouldn't even know what that would look like.
:27:20
So what would a guy like that say?
:27:22
Well, he'd say my name is Alex Hitchens,
and I am a consultant.
:27:26
But she wouldn't be interested in that,
because she probably be just counting seconds until he left.
:27:30
Thinking he was like every other guy.
:27:33
Which life experience has taught her is a virtual certainty.
:27:36
But then he¡¯d ask her name and
what she did for a living.
:27:39
And she might blow him off, or she might say...
:27:47
I am Sara Melas. I run the Gossip column at the Standard.
:27:52
Then he would ask all these penetrating questions about it,
because he was sincerely, if atypically interested.
:27:57
No.