It will always remain a mistery to me why Miriam and Emil ended up splitting up. They seemed to get along famously in spite of Emil's belief in spontaneous combustion and of Miriam's sexual peculiarities (she couldn't help laughing uncontrollably whenever she uttered or heard the word "asbestos" in bed).
Several years went by. One day they ran into one another in the street and decided to have coffee while catching up on each other's lives. It all went fine until, toward the end of their meeting, Emil came up with a rather unexpected question :
- By the way, how are you, Miriam?
- Oh, I'm just fine. You?
- Well, to tell you the truth, I've been a little worried for the past few months...
- Sorry to hear that! Worried about what?
- Actually, it has to do with our split-up.
- What about it?
- Well, we stopped seeing each other, like, I don't know, six years ago...
- So what's your point?
- It's just that I still don't understand why we've been living together ever since.
Monday, February 26, 2007
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