The Long Answer

On a coffee date she asked me an easy question: “What do you do?” I answered for forty minutes. I covered my current job, my last job, a restructure from 2019, and the full politics of our department’s fridge. At one point I drew an org chart on a napkin. When I finally asked about her, she said, “Oh, I’m a dentist,” and asked for the bill in the same breath. She paid it. For both of us. To make it end faster.

She paid to make you stop talking. It's the most anyone has ever valued your time.