Scene: January 15th, 2004. ETHAN, ALLISON, and neighbor LAURA are waiting at the Medical Center Metro Station for LAURA’s husband to meet them to go to dinner.
ETHAN: I saw something strange on the metro this morning. A woman wearing a full-length fur coat. It was weird, seeing someone wearing that on the metro. You’d think she’d be driving her Mercedes to work.
LAURA: My mom has a fur coat.
ETHAN: Yeah?
LAURA: Yeah, it’s not full length. It’s beaver.
ETHAN: Beaver.
LAURA: Yeah, it’s a beaver coat. It’s not full-length. It just covers her butt. And it has shaved beaver cuffs.
ETHAN: Really.
LAURA: Yeah it has, you know, closely-shaved beaver cuffs.
I spent the rest of the evening trying not to laugh out loud.
