A woman sitting next to me on the bus today sent the following text: "Sitting on the bus. An old woman with a cane just angrily stared me down to take my seat. It's not my fault, I was daydreaming of you! Damn you!"
A great text, to be sure, only it wasn't true. Ignoring the fact that the message itself revealed a lie (why is she "sitting on the bus" if she just gave up her seat?) There was also no woman, no cane, and no embarrassment. On the other hand, there very well may have been some daydreaming involved.
In any case, the woman sent it and smiled. If she wasn't daydreaming before, she almost certainly was now. She got off at the next stop (did she really just take the bus for a measly five-block walk? Did she get on the bus in the first place just so her text would be half-true?) and walked away.
And that was that.
