15 December 1988
[Correspondance, November to December, 1988]
Meg steps into Marie-Laure and Sylvie's cafe a full half hour before she's scheduled to meet Dave there. She only has to wait five minutes for a table, and then settles into the chair that faces the door, so she can see, and be seen by, anyone arriving.
And because she has twenty-some odd minutes to kill, Meg pulls a notebook out of her bag and begins working on her packing list for her Christmas trip to see Kim in England.
It passes the time.
(And it needs to be done.)
Meg steps into Marie-Laure and Sylvie's cafe a full half hour before she's scheduled to meet Dave there. She only has to wait five minutes for a table, and then settles into the chair that faces the door, so she can see, and be seen by, anyone arriving.
And because she has twenty-some odd minutes to kill, Meg pulls a notebook out of her bag and begins working on her packing list for her Christmas trip to see Kim in England.
It passes the time.
(And it needs to be done.)

no subject
"Did you see in last week's game, when -"
Dave can, as it happens, talk hockey for a while. It's a nice, neutral subject that they're both reasonably knowledgeable and enthusiastic about - more than enough to fill half an hour or so, before they've both drained their drinks and are ready to be on their respective ways.