1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Hey mister. What'll it be? Pick your poison. 2 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Rough night. Well, most people don't choose that drink without reason. 3 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Usually rough ones. You want to talk about it? 4 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Hey, hey, hey, hey. I'm just the bartender. 5 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 All I'm doing is making drinks. 6 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:13,000 That's all. Your choice if you want to talk to me. 7 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Okay. So you had a date. Now it's still pretty early for a date to end. 8 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:32,000 So either it went horrendously wrong or no show. 9 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:41,000 And I'm guessing you came from that fancy place across the street. 10 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Yeah. It sure is where a lot of dates go. 11 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:56,000 So. How about this. You drink your drink. 12 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 I'll join you with coffee. Cause I don't drink on the job. 13 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:06,000 And you're the only one here tonight. 14 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:16,000 So. Tell me about this bad date. 15 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:23,000 15 minutes late. Yikes. 16 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:32,000 No, no, no, no, no. Of course I'm not judging. Why would I ever judge? 17 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Well. So she's late. 18 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Shows up looking less than appropriate for a date at that fancy place. 19 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,000 What next? 20 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 No. 21 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Oh my God. Wait. I'm so sorry. I don't mean to laugh. 22 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I've had obviously our fair share of stories that we've interchanged. 23 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Here in particular. 24 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 And when I tell you I've heard some things, I've heard some things. 25 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Between being stood up. 26 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:24,000 People leaving in the middle of the date. Not paying. Requesting 50-50. Splits. 27 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 So many other things. 28 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Hearing that she shows up looking. 29 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Disheveled. 30 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 And makeup wrecked. 31 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:46,000 You assumed the best, which was that, you know, something happened emergency wise. 32 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Not that she had sex with her ex. 33 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 And showed up still expecting a date. 34 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And dinner from you. 35 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Because her ex kicked her out. 36 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 And said it was just sex. 37 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:14,000 She proceeds to cry at the table. People proceed to believe that you are the reason why. 38 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000 And you've just left. And came here. 39 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I'm going to be real honest with you. 40 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Drinks on the house. 41 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:34,000 That has got to be the worst story I've heard. 42 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Oh, I've had my fair share of bad dates. Of course. Who hasn't? 43 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:49,000 In this day and age between the online quote unquote me cutes. The actual me cutes in person. 44 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 And then the disaster that is dating in general. 45 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 In our time. 46 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Whatever you want to call it. 47 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Day and age. That's the way. 48 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Thank you for correcting me. 49 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Well, I don't know. 50 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Sometimes I think that, you know, wanting a little bit of romance. 51 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I feel like a lot of people just tend to think that's too much to ask for. 52 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 What happened to build up, you know? 53 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:45,000 What happened to sitting and sharing a drink with a stranger just randomly, you know? 54 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Or going to a bookstore and seeing someone in the same section as you. 55 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:58,000 And they pick up a book that you yourself have read. 56 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 And you spark up a conversation about that. 57 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:12,000 What happened to the moment before a kiss? 58 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 You've never heard of that. 59 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:21,000 I think that's just a me thing, but it's the tension, the buildup. 60 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:37,000 When you stare into someone's eyes and suddenly it changes from soft to sensual. 61 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Like all of a sudden, here you are having this conversation with someone and it's completely innocent. 62 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Right? 63 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:57,000 You haven't had a single inappropriate thought about them. 64 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:06,000 But then all of a sudden you catch yourself staring at their lips. 65 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:13,000 You watch their breath hitch. 66 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:21,000 You watch them gently gulp. 67 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Because your eyes have turned from neutral to predator of the thought of running your lips across their skin. 68 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 And all of a sudden that's all you want to think about. 69 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 That's all you want to do. 70 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:53,000 So you find your eyes roaming their chin down to their neck. 71 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:01,000 You wonder what that collarbone looks like, tastes like. 72 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:08,000 And that despite that comfy little sweater that they're wearing, 73 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:18,000 you wonder what it would be like to leave a couple of marks there. 74 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:25,000 That, that is the tension I am referring to. 75 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 But you know, pish posh. 76 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 It's not like that exists anymore. 77 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Well, maybe it does, but no one's looking at me like that. 78 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:54,000 But with a someone who looks like you, oh trust me. 79 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,000 You have plenty of tension in your future. 80 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Take my word on it, darling. 81 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 What? 82 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Did you just? 83 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 I am not a liar. 84 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Well, I mean, I work odd hours. 85 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:29,000 The last date I ended, or had I should say, ended with the guy not even showing, correction, he showed up. 86 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:37,000 He saw me and left and texted me as he was leaving that it was going to be a no from him. 87 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Like he's fucking Simon Cowell or something. 88 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:53,000 So no offense, but nothing's inspiring anything promising in my future. 89 00:09:53,000 --> 00:10:08,000 I'm very independent. I'm very much in charge all the time. 90 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 What are you doing? 91 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:33,000 I can tell that you've taken the coffee from my hands and you put it down. I'm asking what are you doing? 92 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Am I the only person here? 93 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Yes. 94 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,000 The rain. 95 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 My other bartender had to go to his place. 96 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 The pipe burst. 97 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,000 It was an hour before we closed, so I didn't mind. 98 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:08,000 The cooks left 30 minutes after that because they always leave before the bar closes. 99 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:14,000 So I'm here by my lonesome. 100 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:29,000 The restaurant's security guard always stops by in an hour when it's closing closing time just to make sure I'm not alone. 101 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 So yeah, I'm alone for the next hour. 102 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Why are you asking? 103 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Because I have to be honest with you. 104 00:11:45,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I'm kind of hoping it's because you keep staring at my lips and not because you want to hack me up and throw me in the meat grinder. 105 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Come to that side of the bar and find out. 106 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Hi. 107 00:12:32,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I forgot to say this earlier, but you have really, really pretty eyes, darling. 108 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Yeah, I would. 109 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:23,000 I would love to go on another date with you. 110 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I mean, this is our first date, so technically that would be the second, so maybe on that second date you get lucky. 111 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 I'll see you then. 112 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Oh, you're going to stay. 113 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:54,000 OK, OK, well, why don't we just keep kissing then?