#69

a man and a woman are neighbors for years before they learn one anothers names and a while longer before he runs into her at the noodle shop a block away and he is forced by awkwardness to ask if he can sit down and join her for her bowl of noodles and he is even more embarrassed when he must ask the waiter for a fork because he has not yet mastered chopsticks and the woman says make it two about the forks and he forces an awkward smile but she makes no expression of kindness and they wait for their forks in silence and when the forks arrive the man takes a big spaghetti twirl of noodles and shoves them slurp down his gullet before he asks what the woman does for a living but there is a little green onion stuck on the mans front right tooth and the woman chuckles before she answers that she does nothing for a living because she inherited a significant fortune from her deceased husband but she does enjoy working in charity on a regular basis and he replies that he is a dentist and she asks him arent dentists the most likely professionals to kill themselves