Curry, Cycle, Ask

The date she was on with Roger, despite her best efforts, was not going well. Shelley pitied him - he was socially awkward, painfully shy, and clumsy - and so while she wanted the date to end soon, she wasn’t going to simply walk away. And that squeaky voice of his…

“Shelley? You listening? I was just saying how my fish tank is going through a cycle.”

“May I ask what that means?”

“It means, silly, that the tank is currently toxic to my fish. They died.”

“Oh my!”

“It’s ok. I made a curry.”

She began to look for an exit.