Are you ready? had a pen in handhis wrist on a
piece of paper
Ya talkin to me
Who else? he crouched from the waist humped his
shoulder shifted his eyes one way then the other
his ridiculous theatrics begged
first note Quit woudya then he replied Axiomatic I stand ready and at hand why the
attempted curveball
I wanted to make sure you’re
paying attention.
Me
Don mistake me for you I am both attentive and observant eithertoo often you cannot claim assert
he
rolled his eyes spat Being colloquial.
Oh Colloquialstop
Just get on with
whaever it is ya desperately want to get on with he
began with the pen Your bell curve he stopped
You
don’t kno . .
.
. Its a bell curve I know it is However
Im dying to know wha yare diagramming asya usually begin with the axes Changing it up professor
Methinks you profess too much
he
looked irritated though he was stepping
on his toesgetting out ahead of him Are you quite through
Figured Id toss in my
two cents at the head rather than wait Since
yare changing things up You disapprove or just impatient
Are you through?
he
shrugged Say thought
to hold his breathmake a game of it see if he could hold it the duration of him
sketching definitely wouldntcouldnt for
the explanation which would be obvious but inevitably followed
Thank you.
he
didnt reply as he knew hed think he was being obstinatedragging his feet thwarting the explanation
he continued drawing
prior their conversation had been
about womens figures the classicthe alleged perfect female figure 36-24-36
his bit had been that how radical
that figure was on shorter women outrageous on a five foot woman compared to a six foot woman hed been with both
for whaever reason his bell curve
was more centralised presumably fivesix though he didnt label it or hadnt labeled it yet
he waited
now he was impatient Looks like someone tossed sheet over a hard on
eyes rolled
he
spoke for him Lemme finish
Draggin
your feet professor An by my experiencewhich
I base most everything upon experience your bell curve isnt accurate
It is.
It is in your experience
Or are
you again speaking for the multitude of experienced inexperienced observant
inobservant old young all men and women or men boys women girls Pronouns he
knew that that would frost his fanny
Your
sketch does not resembleillustrate my experience which Ill readily admit I am grateful
Are you quite finished?
he looked up at the clock tower
on the old National Registry city hall to see the time
I am UnfortunatelyI must apologise well have to pick this up later some other
time I have to be somewhere
You didn’t say.
Youd said meet for coffee my
coffee is long gone I must excuse
myself though please hold onto the drawing well come back to it anif not Ill definitely remind you
Chance you might not remember
if
he was a betting man hed clean up
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