A challenge, a surprise: the kind of girl you can’t forget. They write songs about this type of girl; make her into a character in the movies.

At least at parties everybody knows somebody, there’s a semblance of vetting and community, friendship.

It’s not worth it to try to get under the skin of some jerky creep.

You can order up a date for New Year’s using GPS. Damn. There really is an app for everything now.

You can’t even go to a bar anymore, meet strangers that become friends or women who become lovers. You need the extra step of finding them through an app or bonding over an app, that or the make and model of your fucking phone, which you must display as much as possible.

We weren’t old and lame and interested in companionship; that’s only functional at a certain age for child rearing or to make sure you don’t die alone. Dating was fucking.

It wasn’t really acceptable to be single for more than a week, two tops, if you were cool in junior high.