[stylist] Weekly Writing Challenge

[Semirhage]

Here's mine, and I need no critique, as it's just for fun.
Very neat idea, BTW, Rowena, and thanks for sharing. Thanks to my RP I write 
daily, but this topic one is very neat. Here goes.

Title: Girlfriend
By Semirhage

I'm not one to generally listen to people's conversations, but the couple 
sitting right beside me in the coffee shop were very close. Their table 
nearly touching mine, and it was very easy to hear them. The fact their 
conversation was interesting and amusing didn't hurt either. I couldn't help 
but agree with the first speaker. She spoke of the nonsensical wide spread 
social habit of using the term girlfriend' when speaking of a mere female 
friend that she was not involved with as in dating. She said that it was 
socially confusing. She'd even accidentally asked a woman out, assuming she 
was gay, when she mentioned having gone somewhere with her Girlfriend 
Brenda, who she no longer spoke to. The woman explained that she was 
straight and that Brenda had only been a female friend. The woman asked why 
she didn't just say her friend Brenda then, and that it was confusing. That 
there was no reason to mention that Brenda was a girl when the name made it 
rather obvious. The other woman now speaks up, laughing and saying that it 
was just a social convention. The first woman, in fact her girlfriend for 
real, asked why and the second could not answer. The first said that if the 
were speaking of one another, as they were actually gay and dating, the term 
girlfriend would be proper but not if she was speaking of a straight woman. 
Especially as two straight men don't refer to one another as my boyfriend 
Jim or Bob. The 2nd woman said that she did refer to her straight friends as 
her girlfriends, and the two could never agree as to if it was confusing or 
not to do so.

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head.