OVERHEARD DIALOGUE

(adjusted fare of another kind)

‘I’d really like to get into you’

‘He said that?’

‘Sure, that's exactly what he said’

‘You mean he didn't say I’m really into you’

‘Not a bit. He said I’d like to get into you’

‘Literally you mean?’

‘Yep. Literally’

‘Jesus. What did you say?’

‘I said – excuse me, are you talking to me?’

‘And?’

‘Back he came. He said it again. I’d really like to get into you’

‘I hope you told him where to put it’

‘Well, not exactly’

‘So what did you say?’

‘I asked him who he thought he was’

‘And he replied?’

‘I’m the guy who’d really, really, like to get into you’

‘And then what, I asked him’

‘I’d like to do it again he said’

‘Were you buying things all the time?’

‘Well, kind of looking at things. Then looking at him’

‘So what did you do?’

‘I bought those Madras Lentils and Makhani sauce I told you about’

‘And him?’

‘I said to him what makes you think you can talk to someone like that?’

‘And he said?’

‘You’

‘Me, I said?’

‘Yeah, he said, you. I saw you looking at the lentils and knew I had to get into you’

‘Just like that?’

‘Just like that’

‘Well it's a hell of a thing to say to a woman, especially in Tokyo, I told him’

‘He said it’d have been the same in LA’

‘But not in Tokyo I said’

‘Why not, he said, you’re American, he said’

‘But you wouldn't say it to a Japanese woman I said’

‘She wouldn't speak English he said’

‘What if you said it in Japanese I said’?

‘What if – he said’?