h2>Dating : Pressure Washing Business
A man is drooping over a bar, gripping the brown drink in front of him like it holds his life force.
The bar is empty, daylight spilling in from the bright gray concrete outside. A woman cleans the bar absently, watching the man.
He drains the drink and points to the empty glass.
“You get the fuck out of here right now and go start your pressure washing business, Joe,” she says. She shatters a glass on the floor.
“Tomorrow, Beth,” he says, pointing more emphatically to his glass.
“Tomorrow never comes. How long are you going to be stuck on her?”
“She left me for a man who owns a food truck!” he says, slapping the bar.
“You’re a good man and you pressure wash like Jesus! My parking lot looks like a mirror!” She throws a full beer in order to gesture at the very clean parking lot. It shatters on the floor. A couple glancing in turns to leave.
“That’s why people don’t come in here…” he says.
“Why, ‘cause I’m passionate about my friends?”
“No, ‘cause you throw shit.”
“I throw when I care! Better not get all mad and leave to start that pressure washing business…”
“Ok…” he says. “Can I get a top off?”
“You’re pathetic.” She slaps him.
“Ouch. Quit.”
“Or what?” she says, “You won’t start a pressure washing business?”
“No, just quit.”
She slaps him again. “Snap out of it, Joe!” She grabs his collar and is surprised when he is crying. “Oh…”
“I don’t have the money, OK? I broke my pressure washer trying to fill it with alcohol because I thought it would be cool to smell the mist! Is that what you want to hear from me? I’m a loser!” He swipes the whole bottle of whiskey and swigs.
She swipes the bottle back. “Get a loan.”
“They do that for little things?”
She smiles. “Yeah…”
“You think I could get a loan?”
She nods sensually. “Oh, yeah. Then what?”
He’s getting it. “I’ll get a couple of pressure washers.”
“Oh yeah. You got good services?”
“Yeah.”
She pauses.“You want to fuck me on this bar, and then we’ll close up and go to the bank?”
Someone starts to come in. “Y’all open?” he says.
She throws the bottle of whiskey at him. “Get the fuck out of here!”
