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Waiter : She's some kind of newspaper columnist.
Comes in here once in a while. Great tipper.
Alex : What's her drink?
Waiter : Usually beer. Tonight, Grey Goose martini,
dirty.
Chip : Hi. I noticed your glass was getting low so I
took the liberty of
bringing you another apple martini.
Sara : Thank you.
Chip : And I couldn't help but notice you look a lot
like my next girlfriend.
Sara : What's
your name?
Chip : They
call me Chip.
Sara : You
can't get them to stop?
Chip : That
was funny.
Sara : Listen,
Chip, I understand the courage it takes to walk
across a room and try to generate a relationship
out of thin air.
So don't take the following personally.
Chip : You
have fantastic eyes.
Sara : Thanks.
Try to listen. This is
no reflection on you. I'm just not
interested. But thank you for the compliment of
coming over.
Chip : You're
welcome. So do you like Cuban food?
Sara : Chip,
seriously, that was not code for "I wish you'd try
harder."
Chip : Are you
always so shut-down and afraid that the right man
might make you--
Alex : Feel
like a natural woman? Sorry I'm late, honey. I
couldn't get a cab. How was the meeting?
Sara : Oh,
well, there was a, a beginning, a middle, and an
end. Nice to meet you, Chip.
Chip : You,
too.
Alex : On the
one hand, it is very difficult for a man to even
speak to someone who looks like you. But on the
other hand, should that be your problem?
Sara : So
life's kind of hard all around.
Alex : Well,
not if you pay attention. I mean you're sending all
the right signals: no earrings, heels under two
inches, your hair is pulled back, you’re wearing
reading glasses but no book, drinking a Grey Goose
martini which means you had
a hell of a week and a beer just
wouldn't do it. And if that wasn't clear enough,
there's always the "fuck
off" that you have stamped on your
forehead. Because who’s wanna believe there's a man
out there that can sit down beside a woman he
doesn't know and genuinely be interested in who she
is, what she does, without his own agenda?
Sara : I
wouldn't even know what that would look like. So
what would a guy like that say?
Alex : Well,
he'd say, "My name is Alex Hitchens and I'm a
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