1 00:00:47,338 --> 00:00:49,463 Life is all about making choices. 2 00:00:49,713 --> 00:00:52,046 Some choices, like who you marry, are big. 3 00:00:52,213 --> 00:00:54,171 While others are even bigger. 4 00:00:54,338 --> 00:00:55,963 Hey, what do you think? 5 00:00:56,213 --> 00:00:59,630 The $5 ones that last three days, or the $10 ones that last five days? 6 00:00:59,921 --> 00:01:00,921 Either one. 7 00:01:02,130 --> 00:01:03,130 Three days. 8 00:01:04,338 --> 00:01:05,338 $5. 9 00:01:05,796 --> 00:01:08,505 Another choice is how to deal with an ex-boyfriend. 10 00:01:08,713 --> 00:01:12,005 Some women handle it coolly, calmly, while others… 11 00:01:12,130 --> 00:01:13,130 Fuck! 12 00:01:13,921 --> 00:01:14,921 Steve. 13 00:01:16,380 --> 00:01:17,630 Go! Go! 14 00:01:18,005 --> 00:01:21,338 Hey! $5! You pay! Come back here! 15 00:01:30,338 --> 00:01:31,796 He just looked so hurt. 16 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,213 Like a kid in one of those big-eyed velvet paintings. 17 00:01:34,296 --> 00:01:35,880 Aw! Poor Steve. 18 00:01:35,963 --> 00:01:37,713 Well, I'm sorry, I panicked. 19 00:01:37,796 --> 00:01:39,963 What was I gonna do, stand around and chit-chat about the weather? 20 00:01:40,046 --> 00:01:41,880 The man's been inside me, for God's sake. 21 00:01:42,088 --> 00:01:43,421 Could I get some more Sweet 'N Low? 22 00:01:43,505 --> 00:01:46,130 I've never been able to be friends with an ex-boyfriend. 23 00:01:46,213 --> 00:01:49,796 I meet those couples who stay friends and I think, "How? How do they do that?" 24 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,963 I've never been able to be friends with any man. 25 00:01:52,046 --> 00:01:54,671 Why would I? Women are for friendships, men are for fucking. 26 00:01:54,755 --> 00:01:56,588 Honey, you have got to learn to form an opinion. 27 00:01:56,671 --> 00:01:58,588 Friendship is the bonus of a relationship. 28 00:01:58,671 --> 00:02:01,005 If they don't want the relationship, they don't get me as a friend. 29 00:02:01,088 --> 00:02:02,505 So what, if you don't make it as a couple, 30 00:02:02,588 --> 00:02:04,421 you withhold your friendship as a punishment? 31 00:02:04,546 --> 00:02:06,296 Well, you make it sound so bad. 32 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:08,213 Black widow spiders bite the heads off of their mates 33 00:02:08,296 --> 00:02:09,463 when they are through with them. 34 00:02:09,546 --> 00:02:12,005 I think withholding friendship is letting them off easy. 35 00:02:12,088 --> 00:02:13,171 Hey, can you imagine you guys, 36 00:02:13,255 --> 00:02:15,171 instead of the whole awful breaking up scene, you're just like, 37 00:02:15,255 --> 00:02:16,796 "Hey, you. Come here" and you just… 38 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:18,421 …chomp their head off. 39 00:02:18,505 --> 00:02:22,005 Believe me, I would love to be one of those people who's all, 40 00:02:22,213 --> 00:02:26,213 "We loved, thank you. You enriched my life. Now, go, prosper." 41 00:02:26,296 --> 00:02:29,880 But I'm much more, "We didn't work out, you need to not exist." 42 00:02:31,713 --> 00:02:32,698 What? 43 00:02:32,713 --> 00:02:35,046 It's just… It's just so childish. 44 00:02:35,130 --> 00:02:37,338 Not you, the whole situation. 45 00:02:38,005 --> 00:02:38,990 I mean… 46 00:02:39,005 --> 00:02:42,546 We keep dresses we'll never wear again when we throw away our ex-boyfriends. 47 00:02:44,296 --> 00:02:46,546 I'm not saying that I'm any better. 48 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:49,546 I mean, I'm not… You know, I haven't been able to be friends with Big, but… 49 00:02:50,630 --> 00:02:53,005 If you loved someone and you break up… 50 00:02:53,588 --> 00:02:54,755 where does the love go? 51 00:02:55,630 --> 00:02:57,255 To their next girlfriend. 52 00:02:57,463 --> 00:03:00,296 Oh, no, no, no. No, that is a different love. 53 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:03,005 There is no way that the love I had with Big 54 00:03:03,088 --> 00:03:04,921 is the same thing that he has with Natasha. 55 00:03:05,005 --> 00:03:09,296 Natasha? When'd you stop calling her the Idiot Stick Figure With No Soul? 56 00:03:09,380 --> 00:03:11,880 About three weeks ago when I saw them at Cafe M. 57 00:03:12,630 --> 00:03:15,713 He was holding her hand and smiling and… 58 00:03:17,463 --> 00:03:18,463 I finally got it. 59 00:03:19,296 --> 00:03:22,130 They're happy, slash, we're over. 60 00:03:23,463 --> 00:03:24,463 And it was okay. 61 00:03:28,463 --> 00:03:30,713 - Natasha, what a bullshit name. - Totally. 62 00:03:30,796 --> 00:03:32,630 - Stupid. - Yeah, it's complete bullshit. 63 00:03:33,505 --> 00:03:36,505 Later that night, I got to thinking about the ex-factor. 64 00:03:36,921 --> 00:03:40,088 In mathematics, we learned that "x" stands for the unknown. 65 00:03:40,463 --> 00:03:42,380 "a" plus "b" equals "x." 66 00:03:43,005 --> 00:03:44,630 But what's really unknown is, 67 00:03:44,713 --> 00:03:47,796 what plus what equals friendship with an ex? 68 00:03:48,130 --> 00:03:50,380 Is this an unsolvable equation? 69 00:03:50,713 --> 00:03:54,130 Or is it possible to transform a once-passionate love… 70 00:03:54,213 --> 00:03:57,755 into something that fits nice and easily onto the friendship shelf? 71 00:03:58,380 --> 00:03:59,671 I couldn't help but wonder… 72 00:04:00,713 --> 00:04:02,546 can you be friends with an ex? 73 00:04:03,338 --> 00:04:04,671 That Sunday afternoon, 74 00:04:04,755 --> 00:04:08,088 Miranda was sitting at home, enjoying a biscotti and the paper when… 75 00:04:13,380 --> 00:04:14,380 There it was… 76 00:04:14,505 --> 00:04:15,838 her ex's head. 77 00:04:17,755 --> 00:04:19,046 I hear you breathing. 78 00:04:23,046 --> 00:04:25,005 Yeah. Hi! 79 00:04:25,380 --> 00:04:28,713 That was a shitty, shitty thing you did, running away from me on the street. 80 00:04:29,255 --> 00:04:30,463 I didn't run. 81 00:04:31,046 --> 00:04:32,046 You ran. 82 00:04:32,421 --> 00:04:35,463 Well, I wasn't expecting to see you and… I'm… 83 00:04:35,546 --> 00:04:37,296 It really hurt my feelings. 84 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:42,838 Well, I don't do very well with ex-boyfriends and… 85 00:04:43,296 --> 00:04:44,296 Miranda… 86 00:04:44,796 --> 00:04:45,796 This is me. 87 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:47,880 Steve. 88 00:04:53,088 --> 00:04:54,088 Yeah. 89 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,088 I held your head while you were sleeping. 90 00:05:03,088 --> 00:05:04,171 I'm sorry. 91 00:05:04,921 --> 00:05:08,588 - I'm so sorry. I just… - It's okay. It's okay. 92 00:05:08,671 --> 00:05:11,963 I hadn't seen you in so long and I missed you… 93 00:05:12,338 --> 00:05:14,130 And then I did that shitty thing. 94 00:05:14,630 --> 00:05:16,588 - It wasn't that shitty, really. - It was. 95 00:05:16,671 --> 00:05:19,088 It was a shitty thing. I'm a shitty person. 96 00:05:19,171 --> 00:05:21,546 - You are not a shitty person. - I am! I am shitty! 97 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,838 You would never do anything that shitty. 98 00:05:23,921 --> 00:05:26,338 What do you call showing up at your apartment in the middle of the afternoon 99 00:05:26,421 --> 00:05:27,421 and calling you shitty? 100 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,421 Yeah, that was pretty shitty. 101 00:05:31,630 --> 00:05:34,005 You've got a bat in the cave. 102 00:05:39,671 --> 00:05:40,671 I miss you. 103 00:05:42,546 --> 00:05:46,296 Whenever something funny happens, I always want to tell you about it. 104 00:05:46,796 --> 00:05:47,796 So tell me. 105 00:05:49,213 --> 00:05:50,838 Just 'cause we didn't make it as a couple 106 00:05:50,921 --> 00:05:53,838 doesn't mean we can't have a friendly meal once in a while, does it? 107 00:05:56,255 --> 00:05:57,380 I guess not. 108 00:05:58,421 --> 00:05:59,588 So, what are you doing Friday? 109 00:06:01,338 --> 00:06:02,505 I have a date. 110 00:06:04,213 --> 00:06:05,421 Looking forward to it, are you? 111 00:06:07,963 --> 00:06:11,046 As Miranda made plans to have dinner with her last love… 112 00:06:12,963 --> 00:06:16,505 Charlotte came face to face with the memory of her first. 113 00:06:17,963 --> 00:06:19,546 Her horse, Taddy. 114 00:06:21,088 --> 00:06:23,546 Charlotte's relationship with Taddy ended sadly 115 00:06:23,630 --> 00:06:26,338 when he threw her during a teen equestrian competition 116 00:06:26,755 --> 00:06:29,921 causing her to break her collarbone and lose the blue ribbon. 117 00:06:31,463 --> 00:06:33,963 Her father promptly sold Taddy to another family 118 00:06:34,046 --> 00:06:35,421 and she hadn't been on a horse since. 119 00:06:40,213 --> 00:06:43,796 Charlotte wondered if maybe it was time to get back in the saddle again. 120 00:06:45,338 --> 00:06:46,755 Meanwhile, across town, 121 00:06:47,171 --> 00:06:50,088 Samantha was about to see a stallion of her own. 122 00:07:12,796 --> 00:07:13,796 Hi. 123 00:07:14,255 --> 00:07:16,046 I gotta tell you, you look amazing. 124 00:07:16,338 --> 00:07:18,088 Excuse me, but do I know you? 125 00:07:18,255 --> 00:07:19,755 No. Not yet. 126 00:07:19,838 --> 00:07:22,963 But I was thinking maybe you'd like to have dinner with me sometime. 127 00:07:23,338 --> 00:07:25,088 And what makes you think I'd like that? 128 00:07:26,005 --> 00:07:27,588 From the way you were just checking me out. 129 00:07:30,255 --> 00:07:32,630 Well, you get ten points for directness. 130 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,171 Do I also get your phone number? 131 00:07:35,088 --> 00:07:36,130 I'm not sure yet. 132 00:07:38,255 --> 00:07:39,255 I'll tell you what… 133 00:07:40,755 --> 00:07:42,213 Here's my business card. 134 00:07:43,005 --> 00:07:44,005 You call me. 135 00:07:44,796 --> 00:07:46,838 Blatantly picking a woman up on the street. 136 00:07:47,713 --> 00:07:49,421 How'd you get to be so cocky? 137 00:07:49,713 --> 00:07:51,255 I was born that way, I guess. 138 00:07:52,713 --> 00:07:55,546 At least consider meeting me for a friendly little drink. 139 00:07:56,796 --> 00:08:00,046 I'll think about it, Mr. Cocky. 140 00:08:02,005 --> 00:08:03,005 Please do. 141 00:08:12,921 --> 00:08:13,963 It was later that week, 142 00:08:14,046 --> 00:08:17,338 when I spotted a Laura Ashley dress, circa 1988 143 00:08:17,421 --> 00:08:18,963 still hanging in my closet, 144 00:08:19,380 --> 00:08:23,505 that I decided it was time to give my ex a friendly phone call. 145 00:08:29,588 --> 00:08:30,588 Hello? 146 00:08:31,588 --> 00:08:35,213 I hadn't planned on the Idiot Stick Figure With No Soul answering. 147 00:08:36,588 --> 00:08:39,171 Then, I remembered Big had caller ID. 148 00:08:39,796 --> 00:08:40,796 Shit! 149 00:08:50,921 --> 00:08:51,906 Hello? 150 00:08:51,921 --> 00:08:53,213 Well, hello yourself. 151 00:08:53,630 --> 00:08:54,630 Hey. 152 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:55,880 Hello. 153 00:08:56,088 --> 00:08:58,463 - Did you just call? - No. Well… 154 00:08:58,630 --> 00:09:01,171 Yes, but I didn't get to talk because… 155 00:09:01,671 --> 00:09:03,213 I hit the… 156 00:09:03,296 --> 00:09:05,088 I accidentally hit the thing… 157 00:09:05,421 --> 00:09:07,838 thing, so, you know, it hung up. 158 00:09:09,588 --> 00:09:10,588 Well, so, yes. 159 00:09:11,421 --> 00:09:13,213 And I… 160 00:09:13,338 --> 00:09:16,755 I heard Natasha, so, apologize to her. 161 00:09:18,755 --> 00:09:19,921 So, how is Natasha? 162 00:09:23,463 --> 00:09:24,505 Great. 163 00:09:25,255 --> 00:09:26,255 She's great. 164 00:09:28,463 --> 00:09:29,463 How are you? 165 00:09:30,338 --> 00:09:32,088 I'm A-Okay. 166 00:09:33,380 --> 00:09:34,421 You sound a little nuts. 167 00:09:36,005 --> 00:09:38,088 Come on, can't you let one go by? 168 00:09:38,963 --> 00:09:40,171 This is weird. 169 00:09:40,630 --> 00:09:41,630 The first call. 170 00:09:41,963 --> 00:09:42,963 Right. 171 00:09:43,380 --> 00:09:44,963 Maybe I'd… I'd… I'd… 172 00:09:45,046 --> 00:09:48,296 do better if I went with my little prepared speech. 173 00:09:48,421 --> 00:09:49,838 Oh, you have a speech, do you? 174 00:09:50,005 --> 00:09:51,005 Okay. 175 00:09:52,130 --> 00:09:55,546 I was wondering what you thought of… 176 00:09:56,171 --> 00:09:59,255 instead of pretending each other doesn't exist… 177 00:09:59,963 --> 00:10:02,046 we try to be friends or something? 178 00:10:05,505 --> 00:10:06,505 Well, I'd like that. 179 00:10:08,338 --> 00:10:12,046 I've been meaning to call, but I didn't know if you wanted to hear from me so… 180 00:10:12,171 --> 00:10:13,838 Do you want to have a lunch or something? 181 00:10:13,921 --> 00:10:14,921 Let's have a lunch. 182 00:10:20,296 --> 00:10:21,296 Thank you. 183 00:10:21,755 --> 00:10:22,755 - Hi. - Hi. 184 00:10:22,838 --> 00:10:25,130 I have a one o'clock reservation. Bradshaw. 185 00:10:25,255 --> 00:10:27,630 I used to make our lunch reservations in Big's name. 186 00:10:27,921 --> 00:10:31,171 But today, I put it in mine, because that's what friends do. 187 00:10:31,713 --> 00:10:33,005 The other party is already here. 188 00:10:34,338 --> 00:10:35,338 Thank you. 189 00:10:35,630 --> 00:10:36,630 Hey. 190 00:10:39,463 --> 00:10:40,588 - Hey. - Hey. 191 00:10:45,213 --> 00:10:46,755 Are you hungry? Because I'm hungry. 192 00:10:47,213 --> 00:10:50,255 I got up at 6:00, worked out, hardly had any breakfast. 193 00:10:51,713 --> 00:10:53,088 They have a great Cobb salad here. 194 00:10:54,088 --> 00:10:55,463 So what do you say? Shall we eat? 195 00:10:55,921 --> 00:10:57,130 - Let's eat. - We'll eat. 196 00:10:57,213 --> 00:11:00,046 And that's when I realized it. Big was nervous. 197 00:11:00,255 --> 00:11:03,963 It was odd. The new "friend" part of me felt incredibly compassionate, 198 00:11:04,088 --> 00:11:07,463 while the old "girlfriend" part of me felt incredibly smug. 199 00:11:07,546 --> 00:11:10,088 - Oh! You okay? - Yeah. Fine. 200 00:11:13,796 --> 00:11:14,796 Thank you. 201 00:11:16,296 --> 00:11:17,296 Thank you. 202 00:11:20,463 --> 00:11:21,588 Well, you look good. 203 00:11:22,046 --> 00:11:23,380 Thank you, so do you. 204 00:11:23,921 --> 00:11:24,921 Good afternoon. 205 00:11:25,421 --> 00:11:26,421 Thank you. 206 00:11:26,838 --> 00:11:28,630 The Cobb salad is very good here. 207 00:11:29,213 --> 00:11:30,463 Can I get you something to drink? 208 00:11:31,630 --> 00:11:32,630 Iced tea. 209 00:11:33,338 --> 00:11:34,338 A mineral water. 210 00:11:36,963 --> 00:11:39,130 - Scotch. - Cosmopolitan. 211 00:11:42,505 --> 00:11:46,296 An hour later, I had solved the unsolvable friendship equation. 212 00:11:46,796 --> 00:11:48,421 It seems the answer is this, 213 00:11:48,921 --> 00:11:52,630 Cosmopolitans plus scotch equals friendship with an ex. 214 00:11:52,755 --> 00:11:54,255 God! 215 00:11:55,213 --> 00:11:57,046 And what about your music? 216 00:11:57,630 --> 00:12:01,463 If I had to listen to freakin' Blood, Sweat & Tears one more time… 217 00:12:01,546 --> 00:12:02,490 Hey. 218 00:12:02,505 --> 00:12:05,505 - Blood, Sweat & Tears is great stuff. - Ten minutes after we're awake? 219 00:12:09,171 --> 00:12:10,171 Okay. 220 00:12:12,713 --> 00:12:13,755 Tell me about the girl. 221 00:12:17,296 --> 00:12:18,796 - Really? - Yeah. 222 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:20,380 Friends talk about their relationships. 223 00:12:20,463 --> 00:12:24,130 So, go ahead, friend, tell me about the girl. 224 00:12:27,046 --> 00:12:28,046 Well… 225 00:12:30,296 --> 00:12:32,463 - She's very sweet… - Okay, enough! 226 00:12:33,005 --> 00:12:34,880 Don't tell me about the girl. No can do. 227 00:12:36,338 --> 00:12:37,671 Maybe we should make a pact. 228 00:12:38,171 --> 00:12:40,088 We don't talk about our relationships 229 00:12:40,171 --> 00:12:42,130 until they get really serious or something. 230 00:12:42,463 --> 00:12:43,463 Okay? 231 00:12:47,546 --> 00:12:48,546 Carrie… 232 00:12:51,171 --> 00:12:52,505 It is serious. 233 00:12:57,463 --> 00:12:58,463 We're engaged. 234 00:13:00,713 --> 00:13:02,380 I wanted you to hear it from me. 235 00:13:05,380 --> 00:13:07,880 - I just got a splitting headache. - Well… 236 00:13:08,713 --> 00:13:10,505 I didn't know how to tell you… 237 00:13:12,380 --> 00:13:14,130 - And when you called for lunch… - Engaged? 238 00:13:15,588 --> 00:13:19,296 How can you be engaged? You have a problem with commitment, remember? 239 00:13:20,296 --> 00:13:24,838 In fact, you told me you never wanted to get married again, ever. 240 00:13:26,296 --> 00:13:27,380 Well, things change. 241 00:13:27,463 --> 00:13:29,338 Meaning what? You just didn't want to marry me. 242 00:13:29,421 --> 00:13:31,588 - Look, Natasha and I… - Don't say her name to me! 243 00:13:31,671 --> 00:13:34,046 Don't you dare say her name to me! 244 00:13:34,296 --> 00:13:37,171 You string me along for two years 245 00:13:37,255 --> 00:13:41,338 and then you marry some 25-year-old girl after only five months? 246 00:13:41,421 --> 00:13:43,380 - I did not string you along. - Okay, yeah right. Fine. 247 00:13:43,463 --> 00:13:44,963 That's right, you didn't string me along. 248 00:13:45,088 --> 00:13:47,380 You know what? I have to go. I have a headache. 249 00:13:48,630 --> 00:13:49,963 - Are you okay? - Yeah. I'm fine. 250 00:13:50,046 --> 00:13:53,505 - Here. - Don't help me! Don't you help me! 251 00:13:55,380 --> 00:13:56,796 Carrie, hold on, wait a minute. 252 00:13:57,046 --> 00:13:58,838 What? What? What is it? 253 00:13:59,338 --> 00:14:00,323 Don't end it like this… 254 00:14:00,338 --> 00:14:03,255 No, you're the one that ended it like this. I was trying to be friendly. 255 00:14:03,380 --> 00:14:06,588 So, you know what? This seems like a much better way to end things. 256 00:14:06,671 --> 00:14:08,963 So, go. Go. Be engaged, get married to… 257 00:14:10,005 --> 00:14:12,713 Nijinsky or whatever her name is. Have a nice life. 258 00:14:12,963 --> 00:14:14,296 Don't worry about me, I'm fine. 259 00:14:17,213 --> 00:14:18,713 These steps are very dangerous. 260 00:14:25,838 --> 00:14:27,338 The next day, I had promised to hold 261 00:14:27,421 --> 00:14:29,505 Charlotte's hand while she attempted to go riding. 262 00:14:30,005 --> 00:14:32,296 Turned out, she needed to hold mine as well. 263 00:14:32,796 --> 00:14:33,796 How are you doing? 264 00:14:34,463 --> 00:14:37,380 Aside for the fact that my ex is engaged to a teenager 265 00:14:37,463 --> 00:14:42,255 and I've got horseshit on my $300 goddamn shoes… 266 00:14:42,963 --> 00:14:43,963 I'm doing okay. 267 00:14:44,296 --> 00:14:45,755 Well, I think you're amazing. 268 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,713 I would be in a hospital or something. 269 00:14:47,921 --> 00:14:49,921 What the fuck is his problem? 270 00:14:50,755 --> 00:14:52,046 He's just got a stubborn streak. 271 00:14:53,380 --> 00:14:55,880 I mean some horses. they never really like to be ridden. 272 00:14:56,005 --> 00:14:57,630 Taddy was like that when I first got him, 273 00:14:57,713 --> 00:15:00,505 but then once they broke him in, then he loved it. 274 00:15:00,963 --> 00:15:01,963 You know what? 275 00:15:02,088 --> 00:15:03,296 I broke in Big. 276 00:15:03,421 --> 00:15:05,838 I did, I broke him in and now the Idiot Stick Figure 277 00:15:05,921 --> 00:15:07,338 With No Soul gets to ride him. 278 00:15:07,713 --> 00:15:08,755 Carrie, I'm… 279 00:15:10,213 --> 00:15:11,505 I'm really sorry. 280 00:15:12,046 --> 00:15:14,296 I know you are, sweetie. Thanks. 281 00:15:16,130 --> 00:15:18,255 Oh! Damn! Damn! 282 00:15:18,713 --> 00:15:19,963 You see, this is what happens. 283 00:15:20,421 --> 00:15:23,255 You try to be friendly with an ex and you wind up knee-deep in shit! 284 00:15:26,921 --> 00:15:27,921 Perfect. 285 00:15:36,838 --> 00:15:38,171 Here you go. This is Pal. 286 00:15:38,255 --> 00:15:39,255 He's a good boy. 287 00:15:39,296 --> 00:15:41,005 Oh and he's brown. 288 00:15:41,130 --> 00:15:44,255 Taddy was brown, but he had white spots on his flank. 289 00:15:45,588 --> 00:15:48,755 Just stay till I'm on the horse, then you can go, okay? 290 00:15:48,838 --> 00:15:51,838 Yeah, I'm here, it's all lovely. Go have fun. 291 00:15:53,630 --> 00:15:54,630 Hey, Pal. 292 00:15:54,755 --> 00:15:56,630 Here you go. Foot in and up you go. 293 00:15:56,713 --> 00:15:58,755 As Charlotte placed her boot in the stirrup, 294 00:15:58,963 --> 00:16:00,963 all her bad memories of Taddy, 295 00:16:01,046 --> 00:16:04,421 and broken bones and lost ribbons flooded over her. 296 00:16:05,963 --> 00:16:06,963 No! 297 00:16:08,046 --> 00:16:09,130 Can't. 298 00:16:09,671 --> 00:16:12,296 - No, I can't. Let's go. - You just paid. 299 00:16:12,380 --> 00:16:14,463 - I said, I can't! - Hey, he's all saddled up. 300 00:16:18,088 --> 00:16:20,755 After a few "get to know each other" phone calls, 301 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,171 Samantha took up Mr. Cocky on his offer of a friendly drink. 302 00:16:24,755 --> 00:16:27,005 Turns out, it was a very friendly drink. 303 00:16:28,796 --> 00:16:32,338 I want you to know, that I never pick up guys on the street 304 00:16:32,421 --> 00:16:34,380 unless they're very cute. 305 00:16:34,505 --> 00:16:36,546 So, get over here, you cutie, you. 306 00:16:38,671 --> 00:16:40,671 You know, before we go any further, I got… 307 00:16:40,921 --> 00:16:42,505 I gotta warn you about something. 308 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:45,380 Warn me about what? 309 00:16:46,921 --> 00:16:48,255 I'm very well-endowed. 310 00:16:49,463 --> 00:16:51,380 Ting, ting, ting, jackpot. 311 00:16:51,796 --> 00:16:54,088 No, no, no, no. I'm serious. It's… 312 00:16:55,296 --> 00:16:56,296 It's huge. 313 00:16:56,963 --> 00:16:57,963 I mean… 314 00:16:59,296 --> 00:17:01,255 Most women, they just can't handle it. 315 00:17:02,088 --> 00:17:05,046 Well, I'm not most women. 316 00:17:05,713 --> 00:17:08,421 So, unzip and get over here. 317 00:17:12,838 --> 00:17:16,130 Samantha suddenly understood what made Mr. Cocky so cocky. 318 00:17:25,296 --> 00:17:28,963 I'm telling you, Carrie, it was like a wall of flesh coming at me. 319 00:17:29,046 --> 00:17:31,838 There's nothing is scarier than a really big one coming at you. 320 00:17:31,963 --> 00:17:35,088 I didn't even wanna get my mouth near it, I was afraid I'd get lockjaw. 321 00:17:35,505 --> 00:17:38,755 I mean, it was quite a shock. His hands are relatively tiny. 322 00:17:38,838 --> 00:17:41,963 - Oh, don't tell me you believe that. - Well, not anymore. 323 00:17:42,463 --> 00:17:45,921 I am really going to have to psych myself up before I try it again. 324 00:17:46,088 --> 00:17:47,921 You're going to try it again? Why? 325 00:17:48,421 --> 00:17:50,088 Because it's there. 326 00:17:50,171 --> 00:17:51,755 Sweetie it's a penis, not Mount Everest. 327 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,921 Well, let me tell you. If it was Mount Everest, 328 00:17:54,005 --> 00:17:56,713 last night I could only make it to Base Camp One. 329 00:17:56,796 --> 00:17:57,796 Wowza! 330 00:17:58,005 --> 00:18:01,296 You dated Mr. Big, I'm dating Mr. Too Big. 331 00:18:02,005 --> 00:18:03,338 You know what? You're unbelievable. 332 00:18:03,505 --> 00:18:07,005 You broke up with James because he was too small, this guy is too big. 333 00:18:07,505 --> 00:18:09,046 Who are you, Goldicocks? 334 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:10,380 Yep. 335 00:18:10,671 --> 00:18:13,338 I'm looking for one that's just right. 336 00:18:14,171 --> 00:18:16,255 That night, after a friendly dinner, 337 00:18:16,463 --> 00:18:19,713 Steve and Miranda began to explore their newfound friendship. 338 00:18:19,796 --> 00:18:22,421 You know, if you were a real friend, you'd let me keep it. 339 00:18:22,505 --> 00:18:24,588 Sorry, that's one of the conditions of a break-up. 340 00:18:24,671 --> 00:18:26,463 You gotta give me back my fire department t-shirt. 341 00:18:26,546 --> 00:18:29,546 - It fits me perfectly. - Boo-hoo! Tell it to the judge. 342 00:18:29,671 --> 00:18:31,005 - Please? - Nope. 343 00:18:35,713 --> 00:18:37,338 So, thanks for coming out for dinner. 344 00:18:37,546 --> 00:18:39,755 Well, thanks for letting me pay, finally. 345 00:18:39,838 --> 00:18:42,171 Hey, that's what friends do, isn't it? 346 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:44,880 Well… 347 00:18:45,463 --> 00:18:46,463 Goodnight. 348 00:18:49,255 --> 00:18:51,796 Right. That's what friends do, isn't it? 349 00:18:55,213 --> 00:18:57,171 Hey, I got another question for you. 350 00:19:00,171 --> 00:19:01,171 Do friends kiss… 351 00:19:04,255 --> 00:19:05,255 here? 352 00:19:07,963 --> 00:19:08,963 No. 353 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,255 Do friends kiss here? 354 00:19:19,796 --> 00:19:20,796 No. 355 00:19:26,005 --> 00:19:27,130 Do friends kiss… 356 00:19:29,463 --> 00:19:30,463 Yeah. 357 00:19:58,296 --> 00:20:00,255 So, we had good reasons for breaking up, right? 358 00:20:00,796 --> 00:20:01,796 Yeah. 359 00:20:02,505 --> 00:20:05,255 Money, schedules, goals. 360 00:20:06,546 --> 00:20:07,546 Good reasons. 361 00:20:11,255 --> 00:20:12,255 So, what now? 362 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:15,755 Are we still just friends? 363 00:20:16,671 --> 00:20:19,421 Yeah, we're still just friends. 364 00:20:21,005 --> 00:20:22,213 Friends who have sex. 365 00:20:41,421 --> 00:20:43,463 And in a bed across town… 366 00:20:43,838 --> 00:20:44,880 Ready? 367 00:20:45,546 --> 00:20:46,671 Wait. 368 00:20:48,171 --> 00:20:49,380 Wait. 369 00:20:50,046 --> 00:20:51,838 After two advanced yoga classes 370 00:20:51,921 --> 00:20:54,588 and a hit of the best Hawaiian gold she could find… 371 00:20:54,963 --> 00:20:58,338 Samantha was ready to take another run at Mount Everest. 372 00:20:58,421 --> 00:21:01,921 Okay, here we go. 373 00:21:03,796 --> 00:21:05,838 Nice and easy. 374 00:21:08,588 --> 00:21:09,588 Okay. 375 00:21:14,713 --> 00:21:15,838 That's it. 376 00:21:18,588 --> 00:21:20,338 Easy… 377 00:21:20,838 --> 00:21:22,296 Easy. 378 00:21:24,463 --> 00:21:25,505 Okay. 379 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,171 Oh, good. 380 00:21:31,005 --> 00:21:32,296 Good. 381 00:21:32,380 --> 00:21:34,630 Okay, here we go. 382 00:21:36,796 --> 00:21:37,880 Here we go? 383 00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:39,130 Yeah. 384 00:21:39,546 --> 00:21:40,921 You mean, we're not there yet? 385 00:21:42,088 --> 00:21:44,255 - No. - Okay, stop. 386 00:21:44,505 --> 00:21:46,671 Whoa, boy. Woah, woah! 387 00:21:50,755 --> 00:21:52,588 Can we just be friends? 388 00:21:56,463 --> 00:22:00,630 And just like that, Samantha made her very first male friend. 389 00:22:03,421 --> 00:22:07,213 The next day in Central Park, Charlotte was making a new friend as well. 390 00:22:07,421 --> 00:22:08,421 Woah! 391 00:22:08,671 --> 00:22:09,671 Woah! 392 00:22:10,005 --> 00:22:10,990 Good, Pal. 393 00:22:11,005 --> 00:22:13,713 She had decided she and Pal were moving too fast. 394 00:22:14,005 --> 00:22:17,046 Before they could go any further, they needed to slow down 395 00:22:17,130 --> 00:22:18,380 and get to know each other better. 396 00:22:19,505 --> 00:22:21,796 You're a good boy, Pal. 397 00:22:22,463 --> 00:22:23,671 Does that feel good? 398 00:22:24,588 --> 00:22:28,046 You like that? Oh, my Taddy liked that, too, yes. 399 00:22:28,546 --> 00:22:30,713 I loved my Taddy so much. 400 00:22:30,796 --> 00:22:33,671 Oh, good boy. 401 00:22:33,755 --> 00:22:36,338 And with that gentle nudge from her new pal, 402 00:22:36,796 --> 00:22:39,463 all Charlotte's bad feelings about Taddy lifted 403 00:22:39,671 --> 00:22:43,296 and she remembered just how much she had loved his cute white spots. 404 00:22:44,463 --> 00:22:46,296 Easy. Easy. 405 00:22:47,130 --> 00:22:48,796 Okay. Go, boy, go! 406 00:23:10,338 --> 00:23:12,713 Hey, it's Carrie, I'm shoe shopping. 407 00:23:12,921 --> 00:23:14,338 It's me, are you there? 408 00:23:16,921 --> 00:23:18,005 Pick up if you're there. 409 00:23:21,338 --> 00:23:22,338 You're not there. 410 00:23:23,963 --> 00:23:24,963 Okay… 411 00:23:27,421 --> 00:23:31,671 Well, I'm calling to say I feel bad about last week. 412 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,755 I didn't mean for it to happen like that. 413 00:23:42,088 --> 00:23:43,171 I thought you needed to know. 414 00:23:44,796 --> 00:23:46,713 I hated the idea of someone else telling you. 415 00:23:47,921 --> 00:23:48,921 Christ. 416 00:23:49,588 --> 00:23:51,880 I feel like a real shit. I'm sorry. 417 00:23:52,213 --> 00:23:53,880 I'm really sorry… 418 00:23:54,838 --> 00:23:55,838 I would… 419 00:23:56,213 --> 00:23:59,088 you know, I would never ever hurt you deliberately… 420 00:23:59,630 --> 00:24:00,671 I know you wouldn't. 421 00:24:02,213 --> 00:24:04,255 - You're there? - Yeah, I'm here. 422 00:24:10,921 --> 00:24:11,921 So… 423 00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:14,213 Like I was saying, I'm sorry. 424 00:24:14,546 --> 00:24:15,880 No, I'm sorry, too. 425 00:24:17,338 --> 00:24:19,296 I shouldn't have reacted like that. I just… 426 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,505 It was just such a shock. 427 00:24:27,046 --> 00:24:30,171 I guess it was a shock I needed to hear to move on or something. 428 00:24:33,130 --> 00:24:34,130 Yeah. 429 00:24:38,255 --> 00:24:40,755 I wish you all the best. I do. 430 00:24:41,796 --> 00:24:44,421 I hope you and Natasha will be very happy. 431 00:24:45,505 --> 00:24:46,505 Do you mean that? 432 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:47,880 No. 433 00:24:49,213 --> 00:24:50,213 But I will. 434 00:24:51,421 --> 00:24:53,713 Really. Really, I hope… 435 00:24:55,338 --> 00:24:57,088 someday very soon, 436 00:24:57,421 --> 00:25:01,880 we can all meet for a drink and be great friends. 437 00:25:03,171 --> 00:25:04,713 You know, like they do in the movies. 438 00:25:06,963 --> 00:25:07,963 So… 439 00:25:10,046 --> 00:25:11,046 Bye. 440 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:15,046 Bye. 441 00:25:27,963 --> 00:25:31,796 And I actually managed to hold onto those friendly feelings, until… 442 00:25:52,796 --> 00:25:56,213 I can't believe my ex-boyfriend is six blocks away at The Plaza 443 00:25:56,338 --> 00:25:58,213 right now having an engagement brunch. 444 00:25:58,296 --> 00:26:00,380 I can't believe he had the nerve to invite you. 445 00:26:00,463 --> 00:26:02,171 Oh, no no no. It's my own fault. 446 00:26:02,338 --> 00:26:05,963 I had to make the big "let's be friends" speech. 447 00:26:06,671 --> 00:26:09,505 But who am I kidding? Big and I were never friends, we were… 448 00:26:09,630 --> 00:26:10,713 something else. 449 00:26:11,713 --> 00:26:15,296 Something that apparently did not end with an engagement party at The Plaza. 450 00:26:15,505 --> 00:26:17,588 - Do we want another round? - What do you think? 451 00:26:17,671 --> 00:26:19,380 - Four more, please. - Coming right up. 452 00:26:19,463 --> 00:26:23,588 You know, I think I can actually feel them over there eating shrimp. 453 00:26:24,380 --> 00:26:26,630 It's just… Why her? 454 00:26:27,921 --> 00:26:29,255 I mean really… 455 00:26:30,005 --> 00:26:31,005 Why her? 456 00:26:31,546 --> 00:26:33,421 One word. Hubbell. 457 00:26:34,005 --> 00:26:35,171 Hubbell. 458 00:26:35,380 --> 00:26:37,463 Oh, my God. Hubbell. 459 00:26:38,088 --> 00:26:40,713 It is so Hubbell. 460 00:26:40,796 --> 00:26:41,796 Who's Hubbell? 461 00:26:42,005 --> 00:26:43,005 Hubbell! 462 00:26:43,046 --> 00:26:45,796 Robert "Hubbell" Redford in "The Way We Were". 463 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,546 Oh, I love that movie. 464 00:26:47,630 --> 00:26:50,296 No, I love, love, love, that movie. 465 00:26:50,421 --> 00:26:52,963 - Never saw it. - Oh, my god! 466 00:26:53,171 --> 00:26:55,963 What are you, an alien? How could you have not seen "The Way We Were"? 467 00:26:56,088 --> 00:26:57,088 Chick film. 468 00:26:57,713 --> 00:27:01,421 OK. Robert Redford is madly in love with Barbra Streisand. 469 00:27:01,630 --> 00:27:03,130 - Katie. - K-k-k-Katie. 470 00:27:03,213 --> 00:27:04,838 K-k-k-Katie, right! 471 00:27:05,005 --> 00:27:08,130 Yeah. But he can't be with her because she's too complicated and… 472 00:27:08,421 --> 00:27:10,630 she has wild, curly hair. 473 00:27:10,713 --> 00:27:12,630 - Hello? C-c-c-curly. - Yeah. 474 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,921 So he leaves her and marries this… 475 00:27:15,338 --> 00:27:17,755 simple girl with straight hair. 476 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,671 Ladies, I am having an epiphany. 477 00:27:20,046 --> 00:27:22,671 The world is made up of two types of women: 478 00:27:22,838 --> 00:27:25,005 The "simple" girls and the "Katie" girls. 479 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,671 I'm a "Katie" girl and where are our drinks? 480 00:27:28,755 --> 00:27:32,671 I always, always, always cry at the last scene in that movie, 481 00:27:32,755 --> 00:27:35,755 when she sees him in front of the hotel with his new wife. 482 00:27:35,838 --> 00:27:36,838 The simple girl. 483 00:27:36,921 --> 00:27:39,546 - And she reaches up… - And smoothes his hair away. 484 00:27:39,630 --> 00:27:41,130 And she says to him, 485 00:27:41,255 --> 00:27:43,296 "Your girl is lovely, Hubbell." 486 00:27:43,921 --> 00:27:46,255 And then the music comes in. 487 00:27:46,338 --> 00:27:47,338 Memories 488 00:27:47,463 --> 00:27:48,921 Oh my, God, it's so good. 489 00:27:49,005 --> 00:27:51,338 Light the corners of my mind 490 00:27:51,630 --> 00:27:54,921 Misty water-colored memories 491 00:27:55,505 --> 00:27:57,671 Of the way we were 492 00:27:57,755 --> 00:27:59,296 Let me do my favorite part. 493 00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:02,046 - Can it be - Oh yes! 494 00:28:02,130 --> 00:28:06,630 Can it be that it was all so simple then 495 00:28:06,755 --> 00:28:10,713 Or has time re-written every line? 496 00:28:11,088 --> 00:28:14,838 If we had the chance to do it all again 497 00:28:15,213 --> 00:28:16,338 Tell me 498 00:28:16,546 --> 00:28:18,088 Would we? 499 00:28:18,755 --> 00:28:19,755 Could we? 500 00:28:20,671 --> 00:28:23,463 Memories 501 00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:25,296 I miss James. 502 00:28:26,963 --> 00:28:28,171 Excuse me? 503 00:28:29,296 --> 00:28:31,671 After I left my friends, I found myself 504 00:28:31,755 --> 00:28:34,213 pulled to the site of the Big engagement party. 505 00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:38,046 I had no intention of going in, but it was on my way home. 506 00:28:49,630 --> 00:28:51,046 One second. 507 00:28:53,005 --> 00:28:54,046 I had a choice. 508 00:28:54,213 --> 00:28:57,546 I could run or I could stand and ask him the question, 509 00:28:57,630 --> 00:29:01,338 that if I didn't ask, would haunt me the rest of my life. 510 00:29:01,838 --> 00:29:04,088 I thought by the time I got here, I'd know what to say. 511 00:29:05,130 --> 00:29:06,130 And? 512 00:29:07,421 --> 00:29:08,421 Well… 513 00:29:08,796 --> 00:29:09,796 You're late. 514 00:29:10,338 --> 00:29:11,380 The party's over. 515 00:29:12,255 --> 00:29:13,338 I'll say it is. 516 00:29:16,213 --> 00:29:17,213 Funny. 517 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,046 Anyway, I was just on my way home and… 518 00:29:23,005 --> 00:29:24,005 Hey. 519 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,130 I have a question for you. 520 00:29:27,671 --> 00:29:28,796 Why wasn't it me? 521 00:29:29,421 --> 00:29:30,921 - Carrie… - No, seriously. 522 00:29:31,963 --> 00:29:34,255 I really need to hear you say it. 523 00:29:35,838 --> 00:29:37,296 Come on, be a friend. 524 00:29:40,963 --> 00:29:41,963 I don't know. 525 00:29:43,213 --> 00:29:44,588 It just got so hard… 526 00:29:46,380 --> 00:29:47,463 and she's… 527 00:29:49,796 --> 00:29:50,796 Yeah. 528 00:30:03,380 --> 00:30:05,130 "Your girl is lovely, Hubbell." 529 00:30:08,005 --> 00:30:09,005 I don't get it. 530 00:30:10,505 --> 00:30:11,713 And you never did. 531 00:30:19,921 --> 00:30:21,380 Easy, girl, easy. 532 00:30:31,796 --> 00:30:35,005 Then I had a thought, maybe I didn't break Big. 533 00:30:35,505 --> 00:30:38,046 Maybe the problem was he couldn't break me. 534 00:30:39,213 --> 00:30:41,630 Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. 535 00:30:42,838 --> 00:30:46,130 Maybe they need to run free until they find someone… 536 00:30:46,546 --> 00:30:48,838 just as wild to run with.