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The law of averages suggests that the most random of events will balance out. That what we have no control over isn't inherently out to get us or out to help us. That luck is chance and chance is a mathematical formula.

I don't understand luck, but I understand math, and I don't think that luck is involved when you're chosen by someone stronger than you to become a human pinball. And I don't think anything can average out a well-born individual of more than moderate intelligence.

But then people also say death is the great equalizer. I wouldn't know that, either, as I haven't died.

I hear that there are people who can manipulate luck, to tweak the strands of reality's weave until they burst forward with fortune. I suppose, then, where does the law of averages stand on that?

June can't possibly be so bad as May, but then, May was not as bad as people made it out to be. It's almost disappointing.

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I don't think so.

Do you know how to drive?

No. My cars always came with a driver attached.

The best part is driving.

Unless it is a truly one-of-a-kind car. Then, the best part is having sex in the driver's seat.

Sounds cramped. Is having the steering wheel jabbing into your back part of the experience?

Do you think I'm so uncreative?

No, I just think backseats tend to have a lot more room.

They do.

But they're not nearly as interesting.

That's where the person occupying them comes in.

Is that an offer?

It's an observation.

I've never found anyone quite as interesting as a one-of-a-kind car.

[This is potentially a lie]

I wonder if that says more about the car, or the people you've been meeting.

You've never seen my cars. Not the ones here, although some of them come very close.

Sounds like you feel roughly the same way about cars that I do about boats.

I did an engineering project on boat engines.

Engines are cheating.

Hardly.

It's simply a differently purposed boat.

But to be honest they are not my area of interest.

[All that water.]

If the purpose of the boat is to be interesting, then the engine is cheating.

But I have to say, I haven't yet found a boat that's more interesting than some of the people I've met.

That doesn't surprise me.

And that doesn't surprise me. You don't seem like the type to surprise very easily.

It's a rare thing.

You didn't visit me in the hospital.

My informants in the hospital didn't let me know you were in. They must be trying to keep us apart.

They might not have known, actually. I only saw one doctor.

I talk to something like thirty nurses over there. Math is that at least one of them probably saw you.

I'm beautiful and they're jealous.

[This is...almost a joke.]