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Jeff:
What were you doing with Mary this morning anyway?

Jim:
I bumped into her on the train. Turns out she lives around here. So I invited her in for a coffee. What's wrong with that? Casual.

Jeff:
You wanted to break off a piece, didn't you?

Jim:
Well, I like her. You know that. I was just trying to... advance things.

Jeff:
"Advance things"!

Jim:
I mean, I know I don't know her that well. But, we've got things in common.

Jeff:
Like what?

Jim:
Like... we both studied law.

Jeff:
I studied law, you studied law, she studied law - that's what we were doing there. We were all studying law, the same people all the time. That does not count as something you've got in common with her.

Jim:
Well, we both... live around here. We both live around here. And we're both Aries'. I remember she had a party not long after mine.

Jeff:
I went to that one, didn't I?

Jim:
I don't know.

Jeff:
Yeah, I did - the one after your birthday. Yeah, you spent the whole night in that corner trying to get up the nerve to talk to her, and when you could talk to her all you could muster was "Hi. How's revision going?"

Jim:
True. But that's still something. I mean, people with the same star sign are usually compatible.

Jeff:
My leg's killing me.

Jim:
Well, don't you think...

Jeff:
Wait, did you just say star signs?

Jim:
Yeah.

Jeff:
Don't tell me you believe that bollocks, Jim.

Jim:
It's been around for thousands of years. There must be something to it.

Jeff:
Thousands of years ago we had public witchhunts and stonings. I'd like to think mankind has evolved a little since then. Okay look, relationships do not rise and fall over star signs. Just because of the fact that you're both Aries doesn't make you magically compatible. Relationships do not rise and fall because your heart is linked to Venus and your head is up Uranus!

Jim:
Oh, ha ha. Who didn't see that one coming a kilometer away?