For five minutes I realized what life would be like if I were, in any way, interesting. If I had anything to say for myself, if I did anything. But I didn't do anything. And in about 30 seconds she'd know and she'd be gone like a shot.
"So what do you do?"
"I'm sort of taking a bit of time off at the moment."
"Sounds good, yeah. Yeah. Time off from what?"
"To be absolutely honest, time off from time off, in fact. The interesting thing about me is I don't actually do anything."
"You don't do anything?
"Actually, no. Nothing. Nope.
"Wow. That's...
"Now, Rachel, darling. East Coast or West Coast rap? I have absolutely no..."
There. She was gone. There was no more to say