- You know, sometimes I wonder...
- What?
- Well... if I hadn't been Fox Books and you hadn't been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well, met...
- I know...
- Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn't have been able to wait 24 hours before calling you and saying, "Hey, how about... how about some coffee?" or, you know, "drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?"
- Joe...
- And you and I would have never been at war. And the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night.
- Who fights about that?
- Well, some people. Not us.
- We would never.
- If only...
- I gotta go.
- Well, let me ask you something. How can you forgive this guy for standing you up and not forgive me for this tiny little thing of... of putting you out of business? Oh, how I wish you would.
- I really have to go.
- Yeah, well... you don't want to be late.
- You've got mail (Nora Ephron, 1998)
