You, Again by Kate Goldbeck EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kate Goldbeck
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction
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“EXCUSE ME, SIR?” ARI STANDS her ground, feet shoulder-width apart, on the
sidewalk in front of the Brooklyn Museum. “I know that someone who waited
ten minutes for a six-dollar cold brew has the time to stop and talk to me
about protecting the second-largest bobcat habitat in New Jersey.”
Always best to start with a provocation. None of that “do you have a
moment?” crap. No pedestrian in this city has “a moment” for a canvasser.
The tall man in sunglasses, expensive jeans, and a dark sweater—slightly
hunched from the weight of a large backpack—slows down, not quite to a full
stop. He glances at her neon vest and binder, realizing his mistake a halfsecond too late.
“I’m on a fucking call!” he snaps, angling his body to route around her.
It’s fine. Ari is used to people faking calls to avoid engaging with her.
She takes a step to the right, blocking his path again. She needs one more
donation to make quota, so Tall Sweater Nightmare Man can give her twenty
seconds to make the case for the bobcats.
“Can I have a sip?” She reaches toward his cold brew cup with a
minimalist Blue Bottle logo. “I’ve had a super long day out here.” This trick
—passed down from Gabe, her coworker-with-benefits—works about twenty
percent of the time, which is a phenomenal success rate in the business of
pestering strangers for (no) fun and (little) profit.
“Un-fucking-believable!” He lifts the cup out of her reach and jaywalks
across Eastern Parkway, turning his head to look back at her and scowl.
Or maybe to ensure she’s not following him.
When Gabe told their improv class about the “lucrative opportunities”
with ProActivate, he’d assured them that they’d become accustomed to
constant brush-offs, the lack of eye contact, the utter rejection. “It’s good
practice for comedy,” he’d said. “And it pays better.”
Everything pays better than comedy.
But at least onstage you can flop in front of dozens of people at once.
Ten efficient minutes of agony. On the street, it’s like extending your hand
every thirty seconds and getting one of those extra-painful envelope paper
cuts in return.
Something, something…the definition of insanity.
Ostensibly, Ari moved to New York to pursue comedy. When she met
Gabe, one of the charismatic leaders of the sketch comedy theater where Ari
had planted her flag four months ago, he’d spun tales of casting agents
frequenting open mics and late-night encounters with Daily Show writers.
He’d become a hero and a crush.
What Gabe neglected to mention is that most of those encounters
occurred while he worked the register at the noodle place down the block
from the studio.
On the drizzly walk home, she keeps an eye out for one last chance to
make her donation quota. The woman with the promotional umbrella, letting
her Yorkie pee on a flower bed? The stocky man with a gingery beard and
thick-frame glasses, waiting in the doorway of a bar on Washington Avenue?
But neither feels likely. Resigned, Ari turns to head toward home.
When she responded to Natalie’s posting on Craigslist, looking for
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