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"Hi guys!" Phoebe stepped into the cafe, quickly fixing one of Anna's tight Dutch braids.

"Oh, how did it go?" Ross asked knowing that Phoebe had a date that day.

"Um, not so good. He walked me to the subway and said 'We should do this again!'" Phoebe said as the group sighed for her.

"Ohh. Ouch."
"Ruins the rest of your day, doesn't it?"

"What? He said 'we should do it again', that's good, right?" Rachel asked standing behind the coffee counter.

"Uh, no. Loosely translated 'We should do this again' means 'You will never see me naked'." Monica said looking at Rachel.

"Since when?" Rachel asked with confusion written on her face.

"Since always. It's like dating language. Y'know, like 'It's not you' means 'It is you'." Joey explained to Rachel.

"Oh, this is my favourite– 'this has been a great night' actually means 'this has been really boringI was hoping to see you naked." Anna said shaking her head at the many times men had given her the 'let's not end the night so early.'

"Or 'You're such a nice guy' means 'I'm gonna be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them to you'." Chandler said.

"Or, or, y'know, um, 'I think we should see other people' means 'Ha, ha, I already am'." Phoebe said as the girls nodded at that one – some men treated women like a handful of dirt.

"And everybody knows this?"

"Yeah. Cushions the blow." Joey told her.

"Yeah, it's like when you're a kid, and your parents put your dog to sleep, and they tell you it went off to live on some farm." Chandler said making Ross jump into the conversation.

"That's funny, that, no, because, uh, our parents actually did, uh, send our dog off to live on a farm." Ross told everyone, not understanding the sad truth to his dog's story.

"Uh, Ross." Monica said but Ross wasn't catching on to what she was trying to make him realise.

"He is going to be heartbroken once he realises." Anna said sipping her cappuccino.

"What? Wh- hello? The Millners' farm in Connecticut? The Millners, they had this unbelievable farm, they had horses, and, and rabbits that he could chase and it was- it w-"

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