Dinner darlings

When dinner dates dissolve call a friend who answers phones, watch him order a martini dry and eat all the pretzels. Eat Thai off each others' plates and tell him one more time about the plot of that Don DeLillo book he hasn't read (and isn't going to.) Talk to the table strangers beside us about their evening plans. Buy him a beer from the corner store and depart with a kiss to scruffy cheek when its reached its bottom.