. during the ensuring silence my attention drifted to the whine of a siren approaching from the north . i tracked it as it neared merideth 's building and then disappeared toward the south . the sound came close , but i never spotted the lights of the emergency vehicle .
sam said ," i'm waiting ."
"you actually want an answer ?"
"you 're the reslationship genius . it'd be easier if they didn't . want me . if women saw me as a ....schlub . i don't see myself as the guy women want to sleep with ."
mw ? a relationship genuis ? given the status of the romatic relationshipa in my life , i suspected that sam was indulging in a little irony . i could have called him on it , but instead rode his momentum." maybe that's why they do , sam . because you don't seem to be asking ."
he harrumphed . i didn't know too many people who actually harrumphed . sam was one of the few . i feared he'd taken my reply to his question as PLATITUDE AND THAT I'D LOST HIM .
HE SCOFFED ." EVEN IF THAT 'S TRUE , SO WHAT ? BULLSHIT . WOMEN CHOOSE ME . IT'S BAFFLING . but it doesn;t give me a free pass . in the end , i choose them , too . me "
"was ranger ramona right ?" my question earned me some silence . i made the mistake of assuming that sam had not understood my questions , so i expouned ." with her impression ? are you an unreliable l=over ?"
"did you really fucking just aske me that ?" sam said .
"yaeh ," i said , wishing i hadn't just asked him that .
" how about we leave it that she didn't get aa chance to find out about my reliability ,romantic or otherwise . have you been paying any attention to my life lately , aln ?" my Marriage ? my suspension? losing carmen ? i'm doing everything i can to keep the damn thing mass destructtion .i'm doing everything i can to keep the damn thing in the bunker ."
" how's that going for you , sam ?"
i was surprised that he answered ." ranger ramona was tempting .alan . but i've been celibate since carmen and i split , plan to stay that way until i figure thing out ."
i thought he sounded like me counting the nights since i'd drunk alone .
" anyway ," sanm said ." ranger ramona likes tio talk politics .
sam liked tio talk politics too .he had a fantastical version of ronald reagan's tenure in office that he trooted out with some frequency . i said ." ramona 's flavor is sam's appraisal of ramona 's prediction was only a few degrees short of mocking , as though she has rnot your flavor , i take it ."
" she tried to convince me that george bush's last act as president will be to pardon the entire executive branch above a certain pay grade ." sam's appraisal of ramona 's prediction was only a few degrees short of mocking , as though she has revealed that it was her belief that it had been a cadre of wizards who had dug the grand canyon.
" what do you think ? " i asked sam , although i had a pretty good idea already , based on a contentiuious discussion we'd had about scooter libby's pardon .
"i think you and i are better off talkking about sex , alan ."
sam said ," i'm waiting ."
"you actually want an answer ?"
"you 're the reslationship genius . it'd be easier if they didn't . want me . if women saw me as a ....schlub . i don't see myself as the guy women want to sleep with ."
mw ? a relationship genuis ? given the status of the romatic relationshipa in my life , i suspected that sam was indulging in a little irony . i could have called him on it , but instead rode his momentum." maybe that's why they do , sam . because you don't seem to be asking ."
he harrumphed . i didn't know too many people who actually harrumphed . sam was one of the few . i feared he'd taken my reply to his question as PLATITUDE AND THAT I'D LOST HIM .
HE SCOFFED ." EVEN IF THAT 'S TRUE , SO WHAT ? BULLSHIT . WOMEN CHOOSE ME . IT'S BAFFLING . but it doesn;t give me a free pass . in the end , i choose them , too . me "
"was ranger ramona right ?" my question earned me some silence . i made the mistake of assuming that sam had not understood my questions , so i expouned ." with her impression ? are you an unreliable l=over ?"
"did you really fucking just aske me that ?" sam said .
"yaeh ," i said , wishing i hadn't just asked him that .
" how about we leave it that she didn't get aa chance to find out about my reliability ,romantic or otherwise . have you been paying any attention to my life lately , aln ?" my Marriage ? my suspension? losing carmen ? i'm doing everything i can to keep the damn thing mass destructtion .i'm doing everything i can to keep the damn thing in the bunker ."
" how's that going for you , sam ?"
i was surprised that he answered ." ranger ramona was tempting .alan . but i've been celibate since carmen and i split , plan to stay that way until i figure thing out ."
i thought he sounded like me counting the nights since i'd drunk alone .
" anyway ," sanm said ." ranger ramona likes tio talk politics .
sam liked tio talk politics too .he had a fantastical version of ronald reagan's tenure in office that he trooted out with some frequency . i said ." ramona 's flavor is sam's appraisal of ramona 's prediction was only a few degrees short of mocking , as though she has rnot your flavor , i take it ."
" she tried to convince me that george bush's last act as president will be to pardon the entire executive branch above a certain pay grade ." sam's appraisal of ramona 's prediction was only a few degrees short of mocking , as though she has revealed that it was her belief that it had been a cadre of wizards who had dug the grand canyon.
" what do you think ? " i asked sam , although i had a pretty good idea already , based on a contentiuious discussion we'd had about scooter libby's pardon .
"i think you and i are better off talkking about sex , alan ."
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