Max sits with his wife, Sheila, at a New York City diner. They’re grabbing lunch before a Wednesday matinee, which Max is already dreading because of all the old people that’ll be there. Sheila tells Max that his cousin, Fran, has a friend who’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. She also tells him that she’ll be going to Oregon to see her son (and his step-son), Brian, for ten days. Max recalls a kiss he shared with Fran as a child, as well as his dislike of Brian, who didn’t visit him when he had cancer. He tries to discourage Sheila from going. As he speaks, he notices a young man writing down what he’s saying in a notebook. He realizes that the man is writing down what they’re saying; the young man tries to explain that it’s part of a class assignment. In the notebook, he’s written down that Sheila used to be pretty and that Max is hurtling towards obsolescence. Max becomes infuriated. He remembers how much he loved Sheila when they first got together, how beautiful she was, how unfair he’s been to tell her not to see Brian. Max tosses the notebook back to the kid, swearing that he’ll one day feel age catching up to him too.