Cycle of Cliches
“Yup…don’t mind one. But I guess, you’ve come here for a smoke.”
“Yeah, I of course, have. And I’ll have one…um…with the coffee. Coffee, smoke and…um…they go well.”
“And?” she asked with furrowed brows. I had added that ‘and’ just in a flow, not exactly thinking what else went well with coffee and smoke, given our circumstances.
“And what?”
“You said, coffee, smoke and…and then you paused. And what?” she was trying to deconstruct it, her eye-brows raised.