: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.
:28:00
He'd be interested.
:28:02
But he'd see that these was no way
he could possibly make her realize that he was for real.
:28:08
Well, he could be funny and charming, and refreshingly original.
:28:14
Wouldn't help.
:28:15
Doesn't he hate it when that happens.
:28:17
Not really.
:28:18
They both probably go on to lead a life they were headed toward.
:28:22
My guess is, they do just fine.
:28:27
The pleasure to have met you, Sara Melas.
:28:35
Great goose martini, from the gentleman who just left.
:28:43
Woo, is that for me?
:28:47
What?