Sweet cocktail

Your normal drink was a cold beer but you seemed to have been developing a sweet tooth. Maybe eating healthier was having an effect on you.

Alex : "How about a rum and coke?"

Abby nods and quickly pours the simple drink and hands it to you with a smile before returning to looking at her phone. You feel as you often do that a better version of you would have asked an insightful question or made an interesting comment that would have brought about a good rapport but nothing very good comes to mind and if a good idea did come to you then you wouldn't have the confidence to deploy it.

Oh well, maybe something Cerve's is planning will teach you this skill. Until then you resolve to sip your drink and browse the internet on your phone.