Short Intervals

“Only three weeks? Is that a record?”

“No the record is six days.”

“No, I thought this was your longest relationship.”

“Heh. No, that’d be seven months.”

“Weren’t you with that one girl through your senior year of college?”

“Mostly, we had a two month break in the middle so it was really two five month relationships. I don’t count that as a ten month relationship since it wasn’t contiguous.”

“Continuous?”

“No. ‘Contiguous’, it means ‘without a break””

…

“It’s a math term.”

“A math term, eh?”

“Yeah.”

“I see. And you wonder why your relationships don’t last?”

“Not really.”