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"Like in the laundry basket or soh "I value this relationship I’ your laundry anymore I kno you are about your clothes That time I accidentally--because despite what you seem to think, it was an accident--shrunk your Knicks T-shirt? I thought you were going to have an embolism I told you, we need a skilled professional e pay to handle our household chores And I know the perfect person, Magda’s cousin, the one who--"
Cooper interrupts "I earing theht by the bed when I took theful leer, which of course he can’t see, since he’s back hoe cans at the bottom of a nearby stoop does see my leer, however, and shouts an obscenity atthe ator," I say, turning the corner onto Washington Square West, leaving the ho unspeakable to his private parts behind "Shouldn’t you be able to find your own pants?"
"Not when so theht on to me "Did someone just shout what I think they did at you?"
"I don’t knohat you’re talking about," I reply "And ould I do so as childish as hide your pants?"
"I don’t know," Cooper says "You’re a coht I didn’tis, I really need those pants today I can’t think where they could have disappeared to"
"You have plenty of other pants," I say "Why do you have to wear the cargo pants? What about those nice flat-front khakis I got you? Or those jeans you had on the other day You looked very sexy in those" I’o pants, Heather," Cooper says "For work I like to keep things in the pockets"
I don’t understand this
"Jeans have pockets too," I re there are quite a few cars parked outside Fischer Hall, which is unusual for so early on a Saturday ton Square West is illegal
"Not enough of theh for what? Next thing I know," I say lightly, "you’re going to start wearing a fanny pack"
Cooper doesn’t say anything
In addition to the cars, I notice there is a larger than usual nu around in front of Fischer Hall They aren’t students, because they’re the wrong age and dressed roups of tourists being led around the Village by guides wearing funny hats and holding signs, but these people don’t seeroup Soainst their cars, and others are standing together in s the front door to Fischer Hall suspiciously--almost with hostility