Overheard Starbuck

"She's a call-girl and he's her beard."

---"Not her pimp? Her pro-cure-er?"

"In these post-feminist times? Hardly. I'm guessing from her clothes, make-up and hair, she has sponsors: maybe one of the car dealers up the road or a county office downtown."

---"She's dressed like she's headed for a job interview."

"The many uses of office furniture."

---"He looks like he works in home repairs, where denim and flannel never go out of style. Fake tan though."

"He probably does but today he's working for her, I mean them."