Harry
Hmm, I'm getting married.
Sally
You are?
Harry
Umm hmm.
Sally
*You* are.
Harry
Hmm, yeah.
Sally
Who is she?
Harry
Helen Helson, she is a lawyer, she's keeping her name.
Sally
(laughs) You're getting married.
Harry
Yeah.
Sally
(laughs some more)
Harry
What's so funny about that?
Sally
(laughs even more) It's a...well...It's just so optimistic of you Harry.
Harry
Well you'd be amazed what falling madly in love can do for you.
Sally
Well it's wonderful, it's nice to see you embracing life in this manner.
Harry
Yeah plus you know you just get to a certain point where you get tired of the whole thing.
Sally
What "whole thing"?
Harry
The whole life-of-a-single-guy thing. You meet someone, you have the safe lunch, you decide you like each other enough to move on to dinner. You go dancing, you do the white-man's over-bite, go back to her place, you have
sex and the minute you're finished you know what goes through your mind? How long do I have to lie here and hold her before I can get up and go home. Is thirty seconds enough?
Sally
(In disgust) That's what you're thinking? Is that true?
Harry
Sure! All men think that. How long do you want to be held afterwards? All night, right? See there's your problem, somewhere between
thirty seconds and all night is your problem.
Sally
I don't have a problem!
Harry
Yeah you do.
(Plane lands, Harry and Sally meet again on one of those motorised walkways in the Airport)
Harry
Staying over?
Sally
Yes.
Harry
Would you like to have dinner?
(Sally looks over)
Harry
Just friends.
Sally
I thought you didn't believe men and women could be friends.
Harry
When did I say that?
Sally
On the ride to New York.
Harry
No no no no, I never said that. (Harry pauses, thinks.) Yes, that's right, they can't be friends. Unless both of them are involved with other
people then they can. This is an amendment to the earlier rule, if the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possibilty of involvement is lifted. (Pauses) That doesn't work either because what happens then is the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with
the person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from their relationship and "why do you have to go outside to get it?". Then when you say, "no no no no, it's not true nothing's missing from the relationship", the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which we probably are,
