What year is this, why would they continue arguing instead of just taking out a phone and looking it up?
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If I had to guess, she's curious to see how big of a hole he's going to dig himself into.
There have been times in the last, I dunno, 2 decades? with my friends and I have been having a debate or disagreement on something, at which point one of us usually would stop, pull out their phone, and say something like "why are we even arguing, I have the sum of human knowledge in my pocket." It's because we're old and grew up before the Internet was more than DARPA NET or AOL. These kids have no excuse lol
An ex and I were on a bus trip to a city about an hour away from where we lived while we taught English in Korea. The subject of there being a "subway" in said city came up randomly. She said she thought she had seen one the last time she was there. I had been there more times than she had and said there was no subway. She doubled down. No, she was quite sure she had seen one near the university. I doubled down, I've been there quite a few times. There's no way they have a subway. It's not even big enough for one! It got pretty heated. This went on for some time. Feelings were hurt.
She was talking about the sandwich restaurant, and I was talking about underground trains. We were both right.
A friend of mine got in a fight with his wife recently about the name of a bar that's long gone.
He and I had worked in the neighborhood and had been to the bar a dozen times and had been to the other bars probably hundreds of times. He had met his wife years later and had maybe visited the bar a couple of times before it disappeared.
His brain had played musical chairs with the bar name on the block. She was right. I had a rather strong distaste for this bar and generally refused to go to it, so I remembered it clearly.
He had intimate details of the lighting, the unusual concrete bar, the music, the seating, the people we had gone there with. But the names were transposed. He had been looking up tax records and property names trying to prove her wrong.
So first, he got in trouble for not believing her, then he got in trouble for trying to prove her wrong, then he got in trouble again for calling in a lifeline.
Meat-based data storage is weird AF.
Calamari? You mean like clown fish eggs?
Happy cake day!
Now we need to know what OP thinks calamari and caviar are. It could be a 6' situation where guys invite girls to caviar but order calamari. First hint is that she uses singular for calamari.
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