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Come Out and Play

A vision of our future appeared in April when Twitter user @bestinsio sent this out into the world:

“Writing a screenplay about the post-vaccination world. It went like this:

BARISTA (hornily) Good morning.

CUSTOMER (hornily) Good morning. I would like one iced coffee with milk and sugar.

BARISTA (hornily) Are you okay?

CUSTOMER (hornily) Yes, of course.

BARISTA (hornily) You’re crying.

CUSTOMER (hornily) Thank you for my one iced coffee with milk and sugar.”

I thought the tweet was funny and so did my WhatsApp thread of besties — the pandemic-era gay bar. Online,

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