There are certain... situations... places.... stores... where even the best of friends, if they happen to meet, by accident, on separate errands... can never spawn productive conversation... that even these best of friends are caught wordless... awkward as a first date... casual greeting to weird goodbye... because so intent on your first goal... so private... ... ... and so disconnected is this friend from your first goal... so unwelcome... that only for want of politeness you speak to them at all... to decrease rudeness you linger... and you speak of weather, and NFL football... but all you really want to do is the first thing you have in mind... that lingers in the background...
... Not, for example, a doctors office where you know you should not linger... Not on the street, because a wave might just do... it's shopping centers... gyms... where you still see them... are close to them... keep running into them... and the whole time you really don't talk because they're just not part of your supermarket route... and so... in decency you arrange a further meeting at some coffee house at some later date... want to or not... I'll see you there...
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