A conversation in 55 words at a restaurant. If you liked this, read my other 55-word stories here.
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Finally a free table!
It had two armchairs.
Claiming the table before anyone else,
She dived into one armchair, in a quick move,
He followed, offering the other courteously
Till it was politely declined
She: How come no one does nice things like that for me?
He: Because you never give anyone a chance to.
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@ Sense: But I listen to you all the time! What’s more I’ve posted so many of our conversations and your quotable quotes that I am thinking of creating a whole new category on my blog…’Sense’s sense’ !!!
😀 glad to know you sometimes listen to what I say.
@ Passerby: Is it?
@ Hyde: She was the same she.
Something like that happened with me when I was meeting a person for the first time. Before I could offer her a chair in a Barista, she had already grabbed one!
That is a tricky post.
@ Anonymous: Hmm..you’re right, perhaps he wasn’t.
@ Apoorva: So much for anonymous posts….certainly not nice!!
LOLZ! Had almost forgotten about that one!
BTW, I opened the door (only when u had to leave), would that count as being nice, eh?
Maybe he was not that hungry.