"Sure! I think I'll have a chocolate pudding."

She puts in the order for that and a cherry syrup pot on their table's tablet. Their desserts arrive a couple minutes later.

Pudding. Nom!

Pudding theft!

"Hey!" he laughs, and steals some of her cherry thing, too.

She giggles. "It's more efficient to share desserts. My old favorite restaurant used to have tasting plates you could get with combinations of tiny portions of anything on the menu that looked good, but they shut down."

"Aww, why did they? That sounds like a really cool idea."

"It was great! I was so annoyed when they closed without inspiring a genre."

"I should add that to my list of things to persuade people of, next time I meet an enterprising purple."

"And they'll say, 'a restaurant your friend liked that went out of business, sounds like a real winner, Sahde'."

"Well, the reason it went out of business was probably not because of that specific idea, restaurants can have good ideas and still go under!"

"I don't know what it was, though."

"I think restaurants in general are not super profitable? And it's actually pretty hard to keep one going. It could be just that."

"I mean, yes, but if I were an enterprising purple I wouldn't want to retry an enterprising idea that was the only known distinguishing characteristic of a failed restaurant."

"Oh, no, I'm not thinking this should be the enterprising idea, just an idea on top of whatever else they had going for their potential restaurant."

"Ah, that might go over better."

"Yeah, 'cause then if it is the reason they failed this new place won't and then we'll know. And if it's not, it will hopefully be a successful enough restaurants that others will want to copy."

"Maybe."

"And if it doesn't work all I lost is the opportunity to convince an enterprising purple of an idea." Pause. "So in fact I should think harder about ideas to give enterprising purples."

"Enterprising purples only come along so often."

"Exactly! Scarce resource, they are, need to make the best of them."

"Have you advised any on their careers before?"

"I'm not actually sure. Some clients like pillow talk and some of them are enterprising and some pillow talk eventually turns to my having opinions about what an enterprising person should do but I never treated those conversations as anything serious and I don't think my clients did, either. I've gone on more serious dates with a couple of purples but they weren't the enterprising sort."

"It'd be a sort of odd place to get purple career advice, too, professional pillow talk."

"Yeah, and it's not like people aren't already predisposed to think greys are really dumb."