Hearing Things

“What?”

“What?”

“Did you say something?”

“No. You said ‘What?’ – I didn’t say anything.”

“I thought you said something.”

“Well, I didn’t.”

“But you were think­ing it.”

“Think­ing what?”

“Some­thing; I must have heard you think­ing it.”

“I wasn’t thi— What?”

“What?”

“You can’t hear me think­ing something!”

“So you were think­ing it?”

“What?”

“So you were think­ing something.”

“No! I mean, I was prob­a­bly think­ing some­thing, but noth­ing you could have heard! What is wrong with you?”

“What do you mean? Nothing’s wrong with me. I’m just try­ing to have a con­ver­sa­tion here.”

“But you—”

“You’re the one who’s got­ten all hos­tile and con­fronta­tion­al about noth­ing. I just asked a ques­tion, and you get all ugly and nasty about it.”

“Fine, what­ev­er.”