January 30, 2006 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””
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“It’s a math term.”
“A math term, eh?”
“Yeah.”
“I see. And you wonder why your relationships don’t last?”
“Not really.”