Copies
From TOW Ross and Rachel Take A Break
Chloe: This guy is my hero, he comes in with some stuff he wants it blown up 400%, we said we don't do that, and he says you gotta. And y'know what, we did it. And now anytime anybody wants 400, we just say 'let's Ross it!'
Chandler: And that's the only color that comes in.
Chloe is hot.
And she is not Monica. Or Janice, or even Ginger.
So looking at (and fantasizing about) her for the past few weeks has been a nice little distraction.
Talking to her, though, turns out not to be nearly so nice, even if it's definitely distracting - for all the wrong reasons.
Chloe is quite possibly the most boring person Chandler has ever met - and given that he spends his days with data processing office drones, this is a fairly impressive feat. He's learned more about copiers in the past hour than he ever wanted to know, and the only thing he's sure of right now is that he'd rather listen to his assistant talk about her dog. And Chandler hates dogs.
Chloe's 'hot' factor has decreased with every anecdote, by orders of magnitude that Chandler can't even calculate – and since Chandler is good at math, that's saying something.
This, he thinks, as he sips his beer, is yet another thing he can blame on Monica. Before he spent so much time with her, he didn't mind it too much if girls were boring, especially if they were pretty and willing to listen to him. But now… he minds.
The thing about Monica is that, even when she drives him crazy, or treats him like a second brother (though sometimes he thinks she likes him more than she likes Ross), or argues with him (or shows up in his dreams), she doesn't bore him. She frustrates him, comforts him, annoys him, amuses him (turns him on)… but she has never been dull.
As he listens to Chloe drone on about an XS4200, he finds himself wondering how Monica's date with Phoebe's translator is going.
Hopefully the guy is talking about transitive verbs.
With his luck, though, the guy tells great stories and better jokes.