My NotGraphs World Series Chat Chat With My Wife
“What are you doing?”
“Trying to get this chat thing to work on my phone.”
“Remind me what exactly this is…?”
“NotGraphs is doing a World Series chat.”
“Does that mean we have to watch the game?”
“No.”
“Oh, so we can finish The Good Wife?”
“Yeah, yeah, that’s fine.”
“So then what are you chatting about?”
“I don’t know.”
“And who is reading it?”
“Nobody.”
“Are you getting paid to do this?”
“No.”
“So, wait, tell me again what exactly this is and why you’re doing it.”
“I don’t know. It’s just a thing.”
“Wouldn’t you rather go to sleep? [We were up at 3AM because our son is either teething or has decided to become nocturnal.]”
“Yes.”
“So go to sleep.”
“Okay. I should.”
“You should.”
“And this stupid chat site keeps making it harder for me to scroll through everything anyway.”
“Even better.”
“Do you want me to tell you what happens during the rest of The Good Wife episode since I already read a recap of it online?”
“No. Why did you read about it before we watched it?”
“I don’t know. Do you want to watch the World Series game instead?”
“I thought you didn’t have to watch it.”
“What if I want to watch it?”
“Do you?”
“I don’t know.”
“We should go to sleep.”
Jeremy Blachman is the author of Anonymous Lawyer, a satirical novel that should make people who didn't go to law school feel good about their life choices. Read more at McSweeney's or elsewhere. He likes e-mail.
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