She took a sip of her water and he said, That glass is half full, and she said, What were we talking about? and the glass became half empty.

The day came to its merciful end. He opened a beer. He called her and said, Let’s. She said, I don’t do that kind of thing. His night began.

He commented on her disposition. She felt the paternalism in his thought and kneed him in the groin. And he hallucinated his own happiness.

I wanted to tell her how I felt but my shyness got the better of me. I got a t-shirt made and wore it to our date. Do you have gum? it said.