Virtual Reality

“Oh, C’mon, Jean! Give him another chance?”

The two friends sit at their favorite sidewalk café, drinking coffee and throwing crumbs to pigeons spilling from the park next door.

“Amy, really, I was s-o-o bored! I was texting under my jacket the whole time. All he talked about was ‘StarCraft’.”

“If you want to date a techie-programmer with money, you have to expect that. He’s virtually a genius.”

“You may be right about that, but this girl lives in the ‘real’ world,” Jean asserts, pausing to check out the physique of a passing male jogger, who returns her beaming smile.