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Carrie : Well, I
can't believe it. Same time, same place. Just you and
me.
Mr. Big : Well, sort of. Meet my friend Jack.
Carrie : Oh, hi. How are you?
Jack : Marvelous. Going
through my second divorce. Bitch is
getting everything the first bitch didn't.
Carrie : There he was, right in the middle of
my drink thing... Mr. Marvelous.
Jack : Jesus. Look at that beautiful woman. I'm gonna
go ask her to join us for dinner. Excuse me.
Mr. Big : OK. He, uh, called me crying. Do you forgive
me?
Carrie : Here's what.
Why don't you two have a guy's night. You know, talk,
cry, shoot bear.
I'm way
behind on
my column anyway. Here.
Next round on me. We'll do our thing
another time.
Mr. Big : Are you sure?
Carrie : Abso-fucking-lutely. I didn't know what I was
supposed to feel. Confused? Sad? Rejected? I decided to
walk to clear my head. Also, I just left my cab fare on
the table. So I walked. I walked 48 blocks in
four-hundred-dollar shoes. I just needed something to
take the edge off.
Jack : Hi.
Woman : Hello.
Carrie : Hi. How are you? Why is it in a city of ten
million men you always see the one you don't want and
never see the one you-
Mr. Big : Hi.
Carrie : Hi. What are you doing down there?
Mr. Big : It's a wobbly table. Guess I have the touch.
Would you care to join us?
Carrie : Hinge.
Mr. Big : What?
Carrie : Your crossword puzzle. Five-letter word. "To
bring together." Hinge. Nice seeing you. Bye.
Woman : Bye.
Mr. Big : Excuse me. Hey, just so you know, I would've
gotten hinge on my own. Maybe.
Carrie : I have no doubt.
Mr. Big : Now that I've got Jack
hooked up, I'm
single again. Maybe we could have dinner sometime.
Carrie : I don't know. I'm good at crossword puzzles.
I'm just not so good at people puzzles.
Mr. Big : Anywhere you want. Just you and me.
Carrie : Call me. As I walked away, I had a thought:
Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down
and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.
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