How did your R O I work out

Return on investment? Look at you rocking an acronym; this a breakthrough?

35 No  If I said Roy you wouldntve followed me

35? You’re calling me 35 now?

I am 

You want to remind me why you’re calling me 35?

Arent ya a little distressed yare asking me to remind you

                                                            Lemme give ya some time  It was two days ago that we had that conversation

Time won’t help . I’ve told you I can’t do two things at onc . .

. . Ill sit here quietly admire the view the birds

No. I’ll be distracted that you’re waiting on me.

You cant disregard meI could go into the house  outa sight outa mind

No. I’ll know you’re in the house waiting for me to remember . . that’ll distract me tooI can’t do two things at once!

SHESH 

        Okayokay  relax take it down a few notches  Im not meaning to get you excited irritated

Just tell me, please; I’m not distressed I can’t remember, I'm really not.

Yare gonna crown yourself  Sure you don wanna a hint

No!

Awright awright  I call you 35 because you told me when you began dating apps you had been divorced 35 days

Yes, I recall, I did say that; thank you for not making a hint.

Ya would have remember

Or maybe I wouldn’t have, then I’d really've been upset.

Ya would have remember

                          Anyway  you mentioned ya got a new fish on line

Yes, but first lemme say this about Roy . . I think she wasn’t her, she might not have even been a woman.

 

You talked to her

Oh . . you’re right, I did.

She sounded like a woman

She did, she did, I don’t mean she wasn’t a woman, I meant to say I think she wasn’t who she said she was.

Since yare in an alternate reality youll have to explain what you mean  You can do thatyah

  Yes.

        She might have been catfishing me.

Catfishing

Yes, catfishin . .

. . Repeating it isnt describing itdefine the term

                                                  Alternate realitys a different world  Gimme a break

Oh, you don’t know?

Wittgensteins seventh proposition

Ah, hence your silence.

 

Okay, okay, I get it.

                     Catfishing, catfish, is someone who pretends to be someone they’re not.

Why

I don’t know why, it’s social media, a catfish pursues deceptive on-line romances.

Why

A chick could be a three-hundred pound dude.

Fourhunred

What do you mean four-hundred?

Former

Former? Four-hundred?

Possible  he aint svelte

Three-hundred isn’t svelte.

No Threehunred pounds isnt

                                   Nevermind

Okay, anyway, this is my logic from here forth; catfish me once, shame on you, catfish me twice, shame on me.

Clever  Catfish  

                 Ya blew the line

I did? That’s wrong?

Its pluck catfish out  Fool me once, shame on . . . shame on you. Fool me – you cant get fooled again

                                                                                                          Bushs riff an homage to The Who

What are you talking about?

Nothing

           Apparently  absolutely  nothing

1614,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  4  8. 21

1446,  Twosday,  10  8. 21

400 pound hacker  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSTGxKKmlXA

The Who  Won’t Get Fooled Again  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q 

 

as a boy he knew there was something about these people that turned him off made him coldmade him walk away from them in midsentence

                       ordinarily he wasnt rude

he found he couldnt abide them

they scarcely had anything in common

business people

because they irritated him so distinctly it didnt take him long to learn another word to describe them

                                                                                                         sociopaths All for me and me for myself

they were grotesque

all these years later theyve only become more grotesque

 

therefore it disturbed him when he was talking with a friend I’ve been divorced thirtyfive days. and counseling him if counseling was the correct or appropriate word not to go off halfcocked because he thought he got a whiff of interest pussy

it disturbed him that as he explained what 35days might want to consider 35 cut him off

                                                                                             R O I. he said I follow your thinking, your strategy.

he recoiled from acronyms Jesus R O I Cant speak Englishcant just say

                                                                          Im talking that before you pop for a trip her way you recognise the expense youll incur Ya might wanna talk some more alotmore first

R O I is return on investment, my brother's in finance; I understand what you're saying.

Return on investment

That’s what you mean, right?

Yes . . I hate myself right now

                                If I knew an had to shorthand wha I was saying Id have said return on investment

Right. R O I.

Wrong Return on investment

You’re a stubborn motherfucker.

Nah a whole other matter altogether Some other time we can talk about it but in the meantime youve got an iron poker in the fire

1614,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  4  8. 21

1127,  Twosday,  10  8. 21