Same trip, different vacations

“You and your partner are at a bookstore on a Sunday afternoon — your partner's idea, and you were happy to come. But you've been here for almost an hour now, and the way you two move through a bookstore turns out to be completely different. They're treating it like a research project: reading back covers, cross-referencing their phone, occasionally sitting down on the floor in an aisle to read the first few pages of something. You've lapped the whole store twice and you're standing near the door, book in hand, ready to find a coffee shop and actually talk.”