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Dear Boy Epically Striking Out With His Cute Friend Behind Me On The Bus,

For six blocks, I thought I was idly eavesdropping on half of a conversation that you were having on your phone with a person not physically present. These were not blocks that went by in a blur of speed, Epically Striking Out Boy. They were bus blocks. During rush hour. I got to listen to a fair amount of your conversation. And I will admit that your conversation is interesting! However, the first thing you need to know, Epically Striking Out Boy, is that if it takes six bus blocks for your friend whom you are talking with - with - to get a word in - even a word like "mm-hm" - it doesn't matter how interesting your conversation is. She might have been interested in you! Her interest in you would be like a delicate little shoot, poking its head up from the potting soil of indifference, a sprout which needs the air of personal space and the light of physical attraction and the time of time to be able grow. You just dumped several dozen pounds of the fertilizer of your personality on that sprout.

Context gets funnier and funnier.