or he would punch her arm playfully and laugh in an overly loud, false manner.
Human mating rituals are unbelievably tedious to observe.
At least in the animal kingdom you are occasionally treated to a flash of bright feathers or a display of spectacular violence.
Hair flicking and play fights don’t quite cut the mustard.
I was bored and I knocked hard, three times, on the wooden bar, as though it were a front door.
They both looked up. I asked for a pint of Guinness, which the boy began to pour from a tap. “Anything else?” he said.
I was still stumped. I reasoned that part of his job would be to help customers in such situations.
“What would you recommend?” I asked him. He looked up from watching the black liquid trickle into the glass. “Eh?”
“I said, what would you recommend for me? I don’t drink in public houses, as a rule.”
He looked to his left and right, as if expecting someone else to be standing there. There was a long pause.
“Erm,” he said. “Well... Magners is very popular. With ice? Nice summer drink.”
“Right,” I said, “thank you. In that case, I’ll have a Magners drink, please, on your recommendation.”
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