The Dead Drop
I walked into Gloria's study while she was sitting at her computer."That article I sent you on super delegates is pretty interesting," I said, walking away.
"Hey!" she shouted.
I turned around. "Yes?" I asked.
"I wanted to talk," she said.
"We just did."
"No, you walked in, said something, and left," she said. "You do that all the time."
"Oh, I see," I said. "When you say you want to talk, you mean to each other."
"Yes," she said.
"That's risky," I said.
"I can't wait to hear why."
"Well, women see communication as leading to all kinds of positive feelings, but men don't have feelings," I said. "To us, communication is foolhardy and often dangerous. We far prefer the dead drop approach."
"The dead drop?" she asked.
"It's a communication method commonly used in espionage--or marriage," I said. "The agent leaves information at an agreed-upon location, where it is retrieved at a later time by a second party."
"Great," she said.
"If that's not enough, we could try a brush pass," I said.
"Don't even think I'm going to ask," she said.
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