Althea recounts a frustratingly mundane sex dream to her ex-partner, Chris. She uses the dream's bureaucratic setting to highlight the lack of passion and the clinical nature of their past relationship.
ALTHEA: You are not going to believe the dream I had last night. Seriously. It was… well, it was a sex dream. But not, like, a hot, steamy, Hollywood sex dream. No, this was… boring. Utterly, mind-numbingly boring. We were in, like, a beige office. Fluorescent lights, cubicles, the whole nine yards.
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