lists

Things that three single women talk about while walking along the water in the sunshine, in approximate order (it's not just what you think):

Shoes

Spending money

Work

Managing people

Food

Running

Hiking

Photography

Portraiture

The kind of yoga/running pants that have a skirt attached

Bicycling

How long a pair of running shoes lasts

Traveling

Hotel rooms

Religion

Breakups

Friendship

Dancing

Program managing a social life

Whether it's safe for two women (them) to let the third (me) go back to my car alone past all the homeless people camped under the bridge (I said it was, and I went).

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Things that two old friends (man/woman) talk about when they are in the same town, in approximate order:

Sunshine

Hiking

Buying a house

Whether rooibos chai is good with milk

Why one person is making herself two cups of tea at once (one was for drinking cold tomorrow morning)

Chocolate

The filth of the kitchen (I didn't clean)

People we know who've had babies recently

What mutual friends are doing

Dating and its ups and downs

Theories of life and love

Feng shui

Then we started moving things around in my apartment to improve the feng shui. Now I'm obsessed and, four hours later, I still want to keep arranging things rather than go to bed.