T 5534

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He opens the fridge and says, There’s nothing to eat, and everyone reacts with panic, and grandpa says, Back in my day, and the day is done.

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T 5533

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

Typically, the shopping cart with the broken wheel. Don’t buy that detergent, don’t. Oh, look, cracker samples. What is big box make-up sex?

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T 5532

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

And she suggested a picnic. And his friend called with tickets to the game. It’s not easy being a guy, he said. And she suggested a chablis.

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T 5531

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

She barges in to his apartment, takes an onion out of her purse and slams it onto the counter. Cut it! she cries. So he knows how she feels.

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T 5530

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He called his mother and he said, We’re in Zanzibar, and she said, Gesundheit, and then he realized that all the years of therapy had failed.

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T 5529

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

I could if you would but she won’t so I can’t. And then the ocean of her incomprehension meets the poetry of his selfishness and she leaves.

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T 5528

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He says, You Americans and your power, and she smiles and says, You’re my window into Latin percussion, and he nuzzles her neck and goes on.

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T 5527

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He took her hand and said, Do you want to? She looked coy and said, Do you? And he said, Do you? And she said, Do you? And so they never did.

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T 5526

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He bites into the pork chop and she says, I’m thinking about becoming vegetarian, and he chews his meat and says, Our marriage was your idea

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T 5525

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He was on the verge of tears. I’ve forgotten how to do this, the father sighed. And then his daughter took it from him, and opened the book.

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