She tells me she has never been late for an event in her life.
I examine my watch.
It is a question of how you perceive time, she says.
There’s something about online dating.
If you look at time as an ally rather than an opponent,
you can always find a way to work with it.
I examine my watch.
Time is elastic for me, she says. If I will it to do so,
then it expands for me.
She was twenty minutes late for our coffee date, but doesn’t seem to realize it.
I will never arrive late; time will simply stretch out to accommodate me.
I examine my watch.
Everything around me begins to slow down as if it’s been submerged in molasses.
Talk about slogging through molasses.
I on the other hand proceed at my normal rate.
I examine my watch.
In some way, she laughs, I must be some kind of time traveler,
able to move in seconds while everything else moves in minutes.
Or hours, I think, as I examine my watch.
Lanning Lee 