Quiet City

Excuse me!

Hello.

Hi.

Sorry to bother you.

I just, um...

Do you live around here?

Yeah.

Um, I'm supposed to meet

my friend at this diner

on, um, 4th and 7th?

Right.

Do you know where that is?

Am I going the right way?

Um...what diner?

Um...hang on.

I wrote it down somewhere.

Uh, Daisy's?

Oh, yeah.

You know where it is?

Yeah.

OK, so what should I do?

Uh...OK.

Um, basically, um, OK,

go out this exit,

go to your right,

and then take the left staircase

out to the floor level.

Um, and then, OK,

you're going to get out

and go left on the street right there.

So l--

This street right here.

So I take a left when I go

out to the street?

Yeah, go left,

go left out of the station,

left on the street,

and then go, like,

two blocks up,

and then, um...

what do you see over there?

I'm trying to think.

Um...

Thanks for walking with me.

It's really nice of you.

Yeah, no problem.

Kind of a bad situation right now.

My friend--

I should have known.

It's typical of my friend, Samantha.

She, um...

last I heard from her

was on this message

where she said she had lost

her phone charger.

And the only way

I knew where to go

was that she

left me that message

saying to meet at the diner,

so otherwise I would be...

I don't know what I would do.

Really?

Yeah.

That sucks.

Yeah.

It does.

But anyway,

she's really irresponsible,

and, like, she's that kind of person

where if you want to hang out

at, like, 8:
00 at night

or something,

you should probably tell her

to get ready around 7:00

because just give her

an hour extra

because she's going to be

late anyway.

Then she'd still be late

even if you did that, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah, my friend Rick

is actually like that.

Really?

Yeah, like the other day

we went to eat

at this Mexican place,

and, like, the bill came

and it was like...

like I had cash and, like,

he only had his card,

so he was like, "Oh, I'll just

pay for it on my card

and you can give me cash

or whatever."

And I was like, "OK, cool,"

like, not that big of a deal,

and then, you know,

like, two hours later

we were at home

and we realized

that, like, he forgot his card

at the restaurant.

But then it was even worse

because then for, like,

the next three days,

anytime we went and, like,

ate somewhere together

or, like, did anything

that cost money,

he was like,

"Oh, I don't have my card,"

and then, like, I was the only

one who, like, had cash on me

so I'd end up paying

for everything, you know.

Oh, that's not cool.

That's not good.

Just, like, flaking

and, you know,

being really, like, forgetful.

Yeah, although I have to admit,

I just did that about a week ago.

What? Like forgot

your card somewhere?

Yeah.

Although it's usually

my keys that I forget

because when I come home,

I just, like, throw my stuff down,

I just throw my keys,

but not ever in the same place.

Like it's always just, like,

somewhere where I can't find them.

And, like, I probably waste

ten minutes a day

looking for my keys.

- Hey.

- Hey.

What's up?

Uh, she's not in there,

so, um, I guess I'm just going

to wait inside for her,

see if she calls me

or shows up, you know.

OK.

Cool.

Well, I don't know.

Nice meeting you, I guess.

Yeah, nice meeting you, too.

No luck.

No.

So do you come here a lot?

Um, well, I used to,

but I don't so much anymore.

My ex-girlfriend actually

used to like to come here.

Are we going to run into her?

No. She actually

doesn't live here.

She lives in Alaska.

Why Alaska?

She's from there.

She's from Alaska?

Yeah.

Interesting.

What is she doing there now?

She just went back home, or...

Yeah.

She, like, teaches history.

What's her name?

Amy.

Do you guys still talk a lot?

Uh, not really.

We're not on bad terms,

but we just don't happen

to speak as much anymore.

We shared a room.

I had, you know, two roommates

at the time,

and she moved in with us.

So it was us two in one room

and then my two other roommates,

which was kind of weird

because the whole, like,

eight months that I was living here,

and she was still in Florida,

I was kind of hanging out

with them all the time

because they're my friends

or whatever.

And then kind of when she

got here, it was more about...

I guess I sort of...

we just only kind of wanted

to hang out together,

so it was, like, we kind of,

you know, fenced ourselves

off from them

even though we were all living

in the same place.

It was, like, this thing

that you want to just

keep it to yourself, I guess,

if that makes sense.

What do you think

you're going to do?

That's a good question.

Uh...

is this place open 24 hours or...

Yeah.

What, are you just going

to hang out here all night

and wait for her?

Um, yeah.

You think that's a bad idea?

Uh...I don't know

if it's a bad idea.

Maybe it's not necessarily

a great idea.

I mean,

I don't know what--

I guess I could just

keep calling her,

like, try to find--

I don't have her address

or anything.

You can...

if you want to hang out

with me, I don't mind,

and I mean, just while you keep

trying to find her, you know.

I mean, we could just

hang out at my place

so you don't have to just sit

in the diner alone, you know.

Really?

Yeah, I mean, my couch is open.

It's available.

Well, hopefully

I won't have to spend--

No, no, no, no.

That's really nice.

It's not weird.

I just hopefully won't have to

spend the night or anything

because I'm hoping

that she'll call me back

before that happens.

What are you doing now?

Just making sure

she hasn't called me.

I'm sorry.

I'm really, I'm really

nervous right now.

I hope I'm not

freaking you out or, like...

I'm just really nervous.

Sorry.

Can I put my stuff down, like...

Yeah, yeah, wherever.

OK.

Do you want a drink

or something?

Sure.

Let me see.

I'm not sure what we have.

Looks pretty barren.

Do you want, like, a drink

or do you want a drinky drink?

Like alcohol?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, do you want a drink?

Yeah, we can drink.

Get a little loosey goosey.

Um...

All I have is this bottle of wine

that I was actually

kind of trying to save

because my dad sent it to me.

My dad's, like,

kind of a wine nut

so he'll send me these

random, like, wines.

I never really understand them

when I get them.

Like he'll talk about

how great they are,

and then I'll taste them,

and they all taste

the f***in' same to me.

But we can try it.

I don't know.

Do you know what pinot noir is?

Is that good?

I think it's supposed to be better

than, like, merlot or cabernet.

I like most of those

that I've tried,

if you want to try it.

All right.

We'll give it a whirl.

Thank you.

Yeah, no problem.

So this is really nice of you

to let me stay

at your apartment.

I know I already said this,

but I really appreciate it a lot

just because

I don't really know

what I would be doing

right now if...

No, that's fine.

You know?

Sorry, but I don't have

any wine glasses.

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