Ma’am, if you’re in there, I’d like to have a dialogue with you.

And I
said

Just a second. I’m putting on my face.

But really I was
eating a sandwich
packing a few things
watering the spider plant
one last time

We can do this the hard way.

Been there, done that
Isn’t all of life
the hard way?

But I
said

All right. I think I’m ready now.