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Autopsy

Individual evenings, examined after the fact.

Entry 064

Autopsy · Subject R.

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 063

Autopsy · Subject K.

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 062

Autopsy · Subject S.

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 048

Autopsy · Subject M.

The delivery guy

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

Entry 044

Autopsy · Subject M.

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 040

Autopsy · Subject M.

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 037

Autopsy · Subject M.

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 033

Autopsy · Subject M.

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 029

Autopsy · Subject M.

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.

Entry 027

Autopsy · Subject M.

Size 4.5

240 minutes at a mall, $33.23, the cheapest hour on file. One figure in this arc was independently measured and it was wrong.

Entry 024

Autopsy · Subject M.

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.

Entry 023

Autopsy · Subject M.

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.

Entry 016

Autopsy · Subject M.

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.

Entry 012

Autopsy · Subject M.

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.

Entry 008

Autopsy · Subject M.

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.

Entry 004

Autopsy · Subject M.

The food was not representative

60 minutes at the table, 90 in the car, $84.02 paid in full by me. She found the restaurant unrepresentative. Questions even again at 10 and 10.

Entry 001

Autopsy · Subject M.

A date that audits clean

180 minutes, 10 questions from her, 10 from me, 0 phone checks, $143.73 paid in full by me. The audit found nothing. A second date is scheduled.