I had an interesting experience in town today. I was heading at a rate of knots for the bus stop, pushing the snortlepig in a pram, when I came to a crossing and saw a teenageish-looking girl. I gave her my customary tight-lipped, terrified smile which is meant to indicate aimiability and usually looks like I’m about to shiv the recipient. To my surprise, she gave a slight smile back. The little man turned green. We began to cross the road, when she said to me “What do you think, is it worth it if a guy mumble mumble cheats on his girlfriend and then leaves her for another chick, is it worth it?”
I considered this briefly. “Hang on”, I said, “the guy cheated on his girlfriend and then found another girl?” “Yeah”, she said. I was tempted to ask whether this made two girls or three, which of the girls this particular girl was, what I’d missed in the mumbles and why she was asking, but we were running out of road. So with the fate of precious individuals in my hands I took a stab in the dark and said “He sounds like a bit of a scumbag, to be honest”.
“Yeah”, said the girl vaguely and drifted away. I hope it helped.
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