Autopsy · Subject A.
Underwritten
No date held. 16 cards for 16 days apart, 7 hours of manufacture, $84.51, and an insurance policy written by me against my own future failures.
- Entries
- 106
- Dates
- 66.28 hrs
- Travel
- 25 hr 12 min
- Total time
- 91 hr 28 min
- Cost
- $4,011.48
- Cost per date hour
- $60.52
- Recoverable
- none
Latest term sighted
soft-cap dating
noun phrase
- Stated meaning
- Pausing new outreach to concentrate on one person while keeping at most one other conversation open, so that compatibility can be judged without losing every other lead.
- Operating meaning
- One person in focus and one conversation kept warm in case the focus does not hold, which is a rotation of 2 described as restraint.
wife material
noun phrase
A pre-qualification rating issued by a man who has not decided whether to apply, which lets him run a hiring process while describing it as a compliment.
On July 1, at a mall, I told her I had taken myself off the market to focus solely on her and had cancelled the apps. The reply was 2 characters, and neither of us said another word about it while the account stayed open. It is the only line in this file with no dollar figure, no clock reading and no receipt, and it is the one everything after it was spent against.
Autopsy · Subject A.
Size 4.5
240 minutes at a mall, $33.23, the cheapest hour on file. I took myself off the market out loud and was answered in 2 characters. One figure in this arc was independently measured and it was wrong.
Autopsy · Subject A.
Equidistant
180 minutes, $207.44, and the first venue in 7 dates that was not on her side of the map. Cumulative spend passes $1,000.
Autopsy · Subject A.
An asymmetric investment
No date held. 19 days, 1 phone call, 1 postponement issued by me, and a division of labor confirmed in writing by both parties.
She capped the June 9 date at 2 hours before it started, because she was not getting a sitter. It is the first figure in this file that she set.
Autopsy · Subject A.
You need to try casual relationships
120 minutes at Postino, capped in advance by her, $119.68 paid by me. She recommended casual relationships and asked me to kiss her.
love language
noun phrase
A specification delivered in advance, which lets a person name a deliverable while describing a trait.
Two stated policies in this file end with the speaker correcting themselves inside the same sentence. Mine was 2 words after 17, on May 5. Hers was 5 words after a list, on May 31.
provider energy
noun phrase
A solvency check conducted in the vocabulary of astrology, which allows both parties to discuss money while maintaining that neither of them is discussing money.
Autopsy · Subject A.
I reflect feelings, if they're true
240 minutes, $367.00, 135 minutes of driving for a restaurant 20 minutes from my house. Five disclaimers in 26 hours, all volunteered.
On May 8 she offered 2 dates and I asked for both. She agreed to 1. On May 27 she sent me a screenshot of my own message and held me to the other, which is the first thing in 37 days that she started.
The drive-in on May 20 put me in a car for 270 minutes: 90 of transit and 180 of film. It is the first entry where the car was both the price and the place.
Autopsy · Subject A.
Nothing notable to report
180 minutes at a drive-in, $63.50, the cheapest hour on file at $21.17. I asked for both dates she offered, got one, and left with none.
I loaded $102.19 onto a gaming card and we spent $32.19 of it. I handed her the card with the remaining $70.00 on it and told her to take her children. The kart race the venue was chosen for was full.
breadcrumbing
noun
A low-maintenance retention program in which a like on an old photo, sent every 9 to 12 days, keeps a person on the books at a cost of under 1 second a month.
Autopsy · Subject A.
I was giving you space to reach out
$154.69 at a go-kart venue with no karts available, $70.00 of it handed over unused. The first rationalization in this file, sent by text on May 5.
intentional dating
noun phrase
A declaration of seriousness that front-loads the job interview, so that both parties can disclose a 5-year plan before either has disclosed a middle name.