He adjusts his tie and says, You can be lonely in a roomful of people, and she says, I said alone, and he thinks and says, That doesn’t work.

She rolls her eyes so far back she goes blind. Her father finds her lack of exasperation humorous. I wish you could see how I feel, she says.

The relationship was done. It just lacked the courage of closure. And then they argued about the color of his tie. She thought it was peach.

A kid walks up to him and kicks him in the shins and he limps away and the kid says, That’s some limp, and laughs and doesn’t stop laughing.