"I used to do social media for a restaurant back home." Another non sequitur, or is she actually going somewhere with this? "And — the thing is, you never know! We did this promotional video and it was... awful. To put it politely. But I guess it was so bad it circled back to being good again because we got a lot of business out of it. Even if it was just people wanting to see my friend in his dumb pirate costume."

Finally, he gets a genuine laugh out of her! Maybe this night won't be such a disaster after all. Although... "Hey, wait. That reminds me. Where's our waiter?"