I have been considering my options.

Options for what?

For going forward.

All right, some sort of detail will be needed at some point, here, Natasha.

Yes, well, I suppose you are correct.

Thank you.

You’re quite welcome.

And so?

Oh, yes. My maid service. I have been considering selling it off to someone.

Why? Wait, you have a maid service? I could have been paying you to clean my kitchen?

Silly boy, I do not do the cleaning myself, no I run a maid service.

I could have been getting a friend discount in having my kitchen cleaned?

I sense that perhaps your kitchen needs cleaning.

I’ve been waiting to hire a maid.

Truth’s?

No, but it sounds better than just being lazy, doesn’t it?

It does.

Thank you. But why are you thinking of selling off the maid service?

It is too much work. I have to manage schedules and pick the girls and supervise and…

It’s too much work managing? What would you do instead?

My actual job. The service isn’t big enough to support me, but it is big enough that I can’t run it and have my normal job.

Ahh, the true problem at last.

Yes.

I say make the leap.

In this economy? Do you know how few people pay for maids now? And it won’t get better, no.

Then don’t make the leap.

But I do love running my own business.

Then… well, is there a third option?

Sell it and take the money?

But then you can’t run your own business.

True.

So that’s really just one of the other two, isn’t it?

I suppose so.

So then what’s left?

I guess I’ll stick with it longer and see, and if nothing really changes sell it off in a few months?

Isn’t that really just putting off the problem for a while?

Do not shatter, do you see my bubble here? Of laughter and joy? You are popping it. Pop! It is gone now.

Sorry.

No you aren’t.

I just think it would be better to deal with it now instead of putting it off until later.

And I think it would be better to not have to decide. But we can’t all get what we want Daniel.

But we get what we need?

That is only true in rock songs.

Well, that’s a downer.

Sorry.

So what are you going to do?

I don’t know yet.

Yeah, ok, but what are you going to do?

I don’t know!

Right, but what do you think you’re going to do?

Leap across this table and strangle you?

Then you would need to clean up the mess! So making the leap it is.

I don’t even know what to say to you.

Yeah, me either.

All right. So, can we order food then? And not just talk about this?

We can try.

It is going to be one of those nights?

It so is.