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Autopsy

Individual evenings, examined after the fact.

Entry 106

Autopsy · Subject H.

Dynamic opposites

147 minutes at a brewery, $71.67, 9 questions from her and 6 from me, 4 phone checks, all hers, all on call. She closed it at 12:48 pm the next day.

Entry 104

Autopsy · Subject G.

Perfect

No second date held. Her last message was 1 word, on October 11, and neither of us sent another. The account closes at $263.09, 210 minutes and 36 days.

Entry 087

Autopsy · Subject G.

Do you need money

210 minutes across 3 venues, $263.09, 10 questions each. At the check she asked whether I needed money. I said no, and paid for all 3.

Entry 080

Autopsy · Subject F.

The right match

No fifth date held. She cancelled it by text on the day, in 55 words, and I answered in 15. The account closes at $630.88, 815 minutes and 16 days.

Entry 079

Autopsy · Subject F.

Planning for the future

105 minutes at an ice cream shop, $19.56, the first date on file proposed and placed by the other party alone. She arrived 33 minutes late. I said nothing.

Entry 077

Autopsy · Subject F.

The more emotional party

360 minutes at a Wu-Tang Clan concert and in my car, $195.66, 12 questions from me and 15 from her, the most on file. A fourth date was set that night.

Entry 076

Autopsy · Subject E.

Up front

No second date held. I cancelled it by text the day before, in 37 words, and was answered in 7. The account closes at $46.57, 165 minutes and 18 days.

Entry 075

Autopsy · Subject E.

One minute late

165 minutes at a country bar in Chandler, $46.57, 12 questions from me and 10 from her. I arrived 1 minute late. A second date was agreed that night.

Entry 072

Autopsy · Subject F.

Lagavulin 16

140 minutes at a whisky bar, $249.43, 8 questions each. I chose the venue to test her finding on scotch. She tried mine. A third date was agreed.

Entry 071

Autopsy · Subject F.

An acquired taste

210 minutes at an art museum and its restaurant, $166.23, 13 questions from her, 12 from me. She arrived 19 minutes late. A second date was agreed that night.

Entry 064

Autopsy · Subject D.

Six and zero

135 minutes at a concert, $148.33, and a question count of 6 asked and 0 returned, 3 days after the only one on this site that ran the other way.

Entry 057

Autopsy · Subject C.

Ten and fifteen

180 minutes at The Canal Club, $248.00, and the first question count on this site to come out uneven. She asked 15. I asked 10. I closed it the next day.

Entry 051

Autopsy · Subject B.

Was asking to hang

60 minutes at a dive bar, $32.00, and a 6 and 6 question count off an evening that was not a date. 3 outings proposed, 0 held.

Entry 039

Autopsy · Subject A.

The delivery guy

No date held. $98.34 of Jamaican food, 45 minutes waiting in 2 mall parking lots, the first member of her family I have met, and 1 direct question answered in 1 word.

Entry 037

Autopsy · Subject A.

The wrong potato

120 minutes at a grill in her area, $135.54. She raised the towel, called it odd, and named the opportunity I had already filed against myself.

Entry 034

Autopsy · Subject A.

The towel

210 minutes at my house, $58.43 of groceries, and the first 90 minutes of road in this arc that were not mine. One claim settled in kind.

Entry 031

Autopsy · Subject A.

I leave space for disappointments

120 minutes at a speakeasy, $134.74. She leaves space for disappointments, and she asked me to fly to another state with her on August 15.

Entry 028

Autopsy · Subject A.

Option C

$846.10 on an overnight I did not attend, against a policy I wrote with no limit of liability and she redeemed 11 days early.

Entry 025

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.