“Why are chick flicks so pathetic?” she moans. “There’s always some helpless woman who doesn’t know what’s missing in her life until some hot guy shows up and basically makes her feel like her life is worthless without him. He gets all macho if another guy shows any interest in the woman, which is apparently attractive instead of being, you know, creepy, and the woman falls all over him thinking how lucky she is that he picked her.” Sophie throws the remote onto the couch and stands up. “Ugh. Puke.”
