Dialogue between zz alex and natalie on mate selection criteria

Brook 2022-03-22 09:01:18

Natalie Keener: I thought I'd be engaged by now. I thought by 23, I'd be married, maybe have a kid, corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a grand cherokee by now.
Alex Goran: Well, life can underwhelm you that way.
Natalie Keener: Where did you think you'd be by err...?
Alex Goran: It doesn't work that way. At a certain point, you stop with the dead lines. It can be a little counter productive.
Natalie Keener: I don't want to say anything that is anti feminist. I really appreciate everything that your generation did for me.
Alex Goran: It was our pleasure.
Natalie Keener: Sometimes it feels like, no matter how much success I have, it's not gonna matter until I find the right guy. I could have made it work, he really fit the bill, you know. White collar, 6'1, college grad, loves dogs, likes funny movies, brown hair, kind eyes, works in finance but is outdoorsy. I always imagined he'd have a single syllable name like Matt or John or Dave. In a perfect world, he drives a 4 runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. And a nice smile. What about you?
Alex Goran: You know, honestly by the time you're 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he'll be taller than you, not an a.$$-hole would be nice just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don't think about that when you're younger. Someone who wants kinds/ likes kids/wants kids. Healthy enough to play with his kids. Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that's a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that's not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea , a nice smile just might do it.
Natalie Keener: Wow. That was depressing.

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  • Ryan Bingham: [in a hotel bar, exchanging sexual encounter stories while they were flying] So we came up with this master plan which was for me to put gauze to bandage up my hands and when we gotten up to the plane, Trans-Atlantic flying to Zürich we walked up, waited until it was dark walked up to the bath room with her and they were watching a movie opened up went inside she opened the door for me came in and she was going to help me we gave it our best shot, it wasn't great but it was fun and tricky

    Alex Goran: Give me some details

    Ryan Bingham: Well it's not so easy have you ever tried it?

    Alex Goran: Yes I have

    Ryan Bingham: Really?

    Alex Goran: Really

    Ryan Bingham: You've done that?

    Alex Goran: I have done that

    Ryan Bingham: Done it on a Trans-Atlantic fight?

    Alex Goran: And domestic, regional actually

    Ryan Bingham: How about at night time?

    Alex Goran: Only day time

    Ryan Bingham: How do you do that?

    Alex Goran: I'm really flexible

  • Ryan Bingham: [sitting across from each other, exchanging traveling schedules by looking through their laptop computers] I'm in Newark on the twelfth Bethesda on the thirteenth Oklahoma City on the fifteenth

    Alex Goran: Heading south west? I'll be in Albuquerque on the weekend of the sixteenth

    Ryan Bingham: I'll be in Florida on the twentieth

    Alex Goran: Fort Lauderdale?

    Ryan Bingham: Miami

    Alex Goran: I should probably go back to my room so I can wake up in my bed

    Ryan Bingham: I think that would be the likely thing to do