A Boy And A Girl In A Bar

Saturday Night.

Setting: The crowd from a Rugby house party has moved on to a sports bar in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago. A boy and a girl are talking. He’s attempting to flirt. He’s bought her a drink. After several minutes of conversation, he thinks things are going well, she thinks he seems nice, but another boy from the party walks into the bar.

Girl (cutting him off from general bar small talk): I have to tell you something.

Boy: OK.

Girl: I kissed Joe the other night.

Boy: Ohhkaay?

Girl: So, um, I’m going to go talk to him now. (Girl walks away from boy)

Amy Anderson, awkward with boys since 1972.