Alec grinned. "Have you ever read any of those old personal ads from like cowboy times? '20 years old, owns own land, has all teeth, looking for an independent woman to cook for me?' I know they are so outdated, but I find them kind of cute sometimes because some dudes are just so honest and laying it all out there."
"No I haven't," Sloan laughed, "Those sound so funny! But I don't imagine many independent women would choose to apply to an ad looking for a woman to cook for some man."
"You should totally look them up. They are great. I think independent women of that era often liked the homesteader type because the guys would go out and hunt and farm and whatever, and the women could do whatever the heck they wanted without a guy underfoot," Alec mused. "I could be wrong, of course. I remember one read something like... 'Would like the hearthstone of her heart swept, and the cobwebs brushed away; matrimony.'"
"I wonder if in the future people will look at our dating profiles with the same amusement and curiousity," Sloan wondered, "That's really what those ads were."
"Entirely likely, as long as all of the digital stuff hasn't crashed and burned and destroyed it all. Hopefully, there's some archeologist or anthropologist or something printing out some of them for record's sake," Alec grinned.
"If Archaeologists are making copies of it now, it may be a privacy violation, but I bet there will be some future people who will be able to uncode internet stuff, even if we've moved onto something entirely new," Sloan shrugged, "I don't know anything about it though. Your mom might."
"Maybe I'll ask her sometime and see what she says. But if the internet and all things digital fail, it might be hard to get some of them back," Alec mused.
"I've heard there's a lot of problems with lost media already," Sloan said, finally withdrawing her hands and taking a moment to thank the nail tech, "They did a really great job."
"Claire is going to be very annoyed I didn't invite her," Sloan grinned, walking with Alec to the counter to pay, "but she always gets to go. She goes more than I do."
Alec insisted on paying for his half and grinned. "Then I guess I'll have to invite her to go out with me and Becky to get our nails done without you." He winked at her. "Or we could all go together sometime."
"We'll see. For now, I'm going to enjoy these." Alec reached out for a hug. "Thanks, Sloan. This was really fun. I enjoyed myself immensely, and I hope you had fun, too!"
"I did, and I'm really glad we got to hang out like this," Sloan replied, hugging Alec, "I don't know why we're talking like we're saying goodbye, though, aren't I driving you home?"
Alec blushed. "Hmm. Yes, yes you are. I forgot. I don't know, it just felt like a natural end. So! Shall I walk you to your car and then hop in and ride home with you?"
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