She looked around the room again, she was meeting someone, but they hadn’t arrived. She noticed Dianne’s name tag still lying on the table.

(Italics) Trust her – her idea to come here… and shes late – typical.

(Italics) He looks like the type of man who watches MTV on Saturday mornings, trying to remember names and lyrics. There was no need for sunglasses at 7 o’clock in the evening, indoors. Hadn’t his mother taught him it was rude to wear hats inside, especially when talking to a lady. A lady.. what a joke. I bet he drives some kind of flashy sports car – two seater – no room for a family. His own subtle form of blatant defiance. All he has the guts for. Maybe he’ll go out and get a tattoo. “ Mid life crisis” across his forehead would be very fitting. Maybe I should tell him?!

She glanced are the room.

The whole room just oozed mid life crisis. It was steaming from peoples ears into the air, being inhaled by others, drifting from person to person. Eventually leaking through the cracks in the door frame threatening to intoxicate anyone who encounted it. The side effects differed from person to person, some driven to swallow tiny sugar coated pills which would plaster a fake smile on their faces, some to jump of bridges or chairs with nooses round their necks, and some into buying sports bright yellow convertible sports cars in the middle of winter with their credit cards.

She couldn’t psychoanalyses these people without including herself, because she indeed was in the same room. inhaling the same tinted air, oozing the same intoxicating steam from her ears. With the same happy pills on prescription hidden discreetly in her newly acquired Louis vuitton bag.. Casting a watchful eye around the room she catches a 40 something emerging from the ladies room, try to tug down a size 14 black leather mini skirt that kept riding up her size 18 thighs as she walked. She stopped to steady her self on her knife like stilettos smoothing her skin tight top over her voluptious stomach, the skin tight top of which was impossibly low cut.