VIRGIN'S VERSION

摘要

It is a typical friday night in the age of anxious dating. In a bistro in San Francisco's North Reach, a twentysomething couple dines in uncomfortable silence. The man, having run out of small talk, is staring glumly at his plate. Having run out of patience, the woman is looking in every direction but his. Badly disguised relief passes over the woman's face when she hears the customized ring of her cell phone. Digging into her bag, she answers and listens with growing concern. "Oh no," her date hears her say. "Are yon sure you can't get somebody else?" "Okay," she says, sighing into the phone, "I'll he thete as soon as I can," and hangs up. She explains to her date that a good friend's child is sick and she needs someone to go pick up a prescription and drop it off far across town. "I have to go," the woman says with a regretful shrug.