My neighbor texted me — did I know the name of an electrician? We chatted for a while. And then she asked how my night was going. “Eh,” I said. “Low key. What about you?” “Same …” she responded. I hesitated. She was pretty. Had a nice body. What I *wanted* to ask was, “Do you want to come upstairs and fuck?” But of course, there is a more diplomatic way of saying that, these days.
“Any chance you’d be interested in coming upstairs for a good ol’ fashioned Netflix and Chill? Sorry if that’s a weird thing to text a neighbor … can’t hurt to ask, though. Right?”
“hahahah,” she responded.
And then, silence. Guess that was a no.
And then, a few minutes passed and my phone buzzed.
“I mean … the Netflix part sounds fine. But I don’t just do casual stuff. Sorry!”
“No worries,” I said.