"So where do you want to eat?"
"Well, let's go back to the hotel, grab the car, go up north and hit the deli with the pickled tongue..."
"Next."
"You don't have to have the tongue."
"No, but we've already been there."
"There's that wonderful Chinese place at Bay and Bloor..."
"We've been there before, too."
"That's how we know it's wonderful."
"Yeah, but it's a big city. We should try somewhere we haven't been before. Let's just go up to Bloor, start walking and see what we find. Throw a dart at the city."
"Okay, but we're coming up out of the middle of High Park. If we turn left, there's just residential areas for about half an hour in either direction."
"...If we turn left, it's residential in either direction?!"
"Have some water, dear."
"Thank you. All right, do we want to go to Bloor West Village or downtown?"
"Left or right?"
"Let's flip a coin."
"I don't have a coin. You spent it on the popsicle."
"...But Anne-Marie spent the rest on the bottle of Pepsi."
"Yes, but the popsicle was funnier, so I blame you."
"I've got a penny we can flip--"
"Oh, I've got pennies, of course I've got pennies. You can't make decisions with a penny. You can pay for your thoughts with one but decisions cost more than thoughts. A decision is weighter than rambling thoughts. Rambling ambling thoughts."
"Bebe, this is our friend Cameron. You get used to him."
"So which way are we going?"
"Cameron, pick a number."
"Um, 37."
"Okay, we're going west."
"Why?"
"Because you picked an odd number. If you picked an even number, we'd have gone east."
"Fair enough, so how far west are we going?"
"Um... pick another number."
"Well, I can't pick a number now, I know what you're going to--"
"No, I've swapped. Or maybe I haven't. You just don't know. Pick a number again."
"Um... okay, look, the last sentence you said ended with the letter N, and that's the 13th letter of the-- no, wait, 14th-- oh, six."
"Okay, so because you picked--"
"No, that's the sixth person so far I've seen on the street reading Harry Potter."
"Where?"
"In the orange."
"Oh, yeah."
"We're going west."
"...Works for me."
"Me too."
"Da-da."


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