Lunch Chatter

She laughed and I laughed, but we both knew it was true and there was nothing funny about it. Here we were approaching mid-life with still nothing to say to each other. Reminiscing over yesteryear’s follies was the only interaction we could muster. Sad that we could go no further. It was unsafe to proceed past some unofficial line in time – we dare not cross for fear of speaking and addressing those topics not meant for lunch.