i guess. yeah, sure.
what's going on with you?
you're in love.
by monday i promise. i have a paper due friday. now what's going on? i'm just going to stand here till you tell me.
have you had sex?
i mean cybersex.
well, don't do it. the minute you do, they lose all respect for you.
out of hand?
where did you meet him?
about what?
excuse me?
god, he could be the next person to talk into the store. he could be.  george.
are you on line?
cybersex.
i know, i know. one saturday night i was really depressed about not having a date, so i thought, no problemo, i'll go on line and i won't be lonely, but i couldn't get on, there were hundreds of thousands of people who didn't have dates trying to get on.
i hope you told him off.
what?
no, that's the coup de vieux.
and if you ever do meet her, you'll find out all the horrible details, and that will be that. she'll turn out to have pictures of the virgin mary all over the walls.
george had a coup de foudre.
and she was wrong every time.
quel nightmare.
i went to the foxbooks website and you can buy anything. they ship it to you in a day. maybe we should get a website.
what if they put us out of business?
you fill out one of these forms and they file it in the book and if someone wants to meet you, they arrange it.
compared to the internet?
so it's still going on?
i came in here one night and drank too much coffee and filled one out. well how am i supposed to meet someone?
no one ever even looks at me. they don't. on top of which, who are they? they could like the symphony. i could never fall in love with someone who likes to go to the symphony --
i don't know.
i could never fall in love with anyone who smokes cigars either.
yeah. i hate that too.
neither could i.
all that talk about the wind.
it hasn't changed. it's died.
why don't people have boat maids?
what if we have to fold? i'll never find another part time job and i won't be able to pay the rent and i'll have to move to brooklyn.
we know. you've told us a million times. i can't believe you're bringing it up at a time like this. it's like bragging because you're tall. birdie never brags about her rent and she pays even less than you.
great.
channel 2's outside.
they're waiting for you --
well don't go anywhere with him. don't even go out to the street with him afterwards. get a dial cab to just sit there and wait for you.
but did you tell him?
and you're going to meet him in a bar?
oh god, no.
what happened?
he stood you up?
not possible.
absolutely.
and no phone.
they hit something and you slam right into that plastic partition.
or he could be in the hospital in one of those semi-private room with like --
is there a picture?
so that explains it.
and there was a phone --
you are so lucky.
remember when you thought frank might be the unabomber?
how long did you sit there all alone?
joe fox!
he stood her up.
did he say anything about meeting again?
where was this taken, birdie?
close.
who was it, birdie? that you had the thunderbolt over?
why not?
spain?
hi.