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No, I meant 'mutt' in a good way. You know, who doesn't like a mutt?
There's so many cute ones. Uh, labradoodles, there's, uh, goldendoodles, cockapoo, shihtzpoo. You're like a shihtzpoo.
Is that even right? Am I pronouncing that right? Shihtzpoo? Is it, is it pronounced shihtzpoo?
Anywho, uh, peekapoo, malti-poo. I technically don't know if those are actually mutts though, because—
I don't even care, I'm away from the point.
You know why I don't care? Because I love 'em all, I love every single one of them.
I mean, you take a schnouzer and you put it with a poodle, Schnooldle. And a pug with a poodle's a poogle. And they're beautiful, and...
I just think you're really beautiful.
So...
I just couldn't place you, sorry.
Ro. What is Ro short for? Is it Rhoda? Rosanna? Row row row your boat?
How do you know it's short for anything?
I don't. Ro lends itself to something greater. Like it's smaller pieces to the whole.
A whole.
I mean, w-h-o-l-e not h-o-l-e. I know.
Jordan.
What's Jordan short for? Michael.
Well this is a breath of fresh air. What?
Normalcy. I bet you are completely normal. I don't mean that in a bad way, you could be exceptional.
I like to think that you can be normal and exceptional at the same time.
The last guy was a little rough?
He called me a mutt. What?
A shihtzpoo, to be exact.
Really? Yeah. So...
Tell me about you, Jordan.
Well, I'm a sailor.
Uh oh, row row row your boat, indeed.
I just got back from a trip, actually. Greece, Turkey, Malta, and Italy. We were retracing, uh, The Odyssey.
I work for a company, we do vacations, tours, packages, things like that.
Well I wouldn't exactly call The Odyssey a vacation. But, I'm glad you made it home.
And it only took me ten years.
So in Italy you must have hit Naples, Sicily...
Yes. And Pompeii, and Erice, and Segesta— Trapani.
Yeah.
I spent the last couple of years in Italy.
Really? When?
The past few years, actually.
What took you there?
It was something that I... found myself wanting to do. I figure, you gotta go for what you want, right?
Hey, I will toast to that.
Tell me... Yeah?
Did you grow a beard for your trip? Like a big, Odyssean beard?
Oh, yes I did. And I set sail on a boat called "The 24," because there are 24 books in The Odyssey
But, much to the dismay of my employer, I modified the paint job a little. Because, us sailors, we are very serious about our fates and our fortunes...
So with a little acrylic, I changed "The 24" to my lucky number, dubbing the vessel...
23. 23.
How do you know my lucky number was 23?
What's Jordan short for? Michael. That's one of the first things you said to me.
Michael Jordan, number 23. Either you had Air Jordans as a kid, and 23 is your lucky number, or...
It was a luck guess.
I mean, did you have Air Jordans as a kid?
When I was in high school...
My mom had given me this book on dating etiquette.
Rule number one, remember one to three details of your date and use them effectively.
The thinking is that your date will feel like he already knows you.
Are there any other rules?
Oh, you know, things about buttons. Blouses. When to show, you know, a little...
Clavicle.
I mean the book is from the 1950s. I've usually just stuck with rule number one. But I do have other things up my sleeve.
Ah. Do you have anything else up your sleeve that you can't find in an etiquette book?
Go for what you want, right?
That was not— Too short! —five minutes!
Too short! That was not five minutes! It's too short.
It wasn't even five minutes.
Well, I don't know if I'm exceptional...
But I have a feeling that you are.
You've got an exceedingly compelling...
Mind.
Well, look who we have here.
Ro is it?
I feel like we know each other from somewhere.
Ravi. We must, you know my name.
What are you doing? She can switch us.
Oh, I see you came here to meet new people?
Don't. Don't, Ro. We already know each other.
And how will you explain to our esteemed hostess how we know each other? Or let me ask you this: How will I?