“That’s two words, not one,” he said smugly.
“It can be both,” I said, rolling my eyes and leaving the table.
I was almost out of earshot when I heard him say to the casting director, “If I have to use one word, it would be ‘awesome.’ But if I can use two words like that girl did, they would be ‘super awesome.’ “
Right before I left, I bumped into a friend who was working the door. He rolled his eyes when he found out we had just left the casting call. “I have so much less respect for you right now,” he said.
I said it had been worth it — at least we got a few good stories out of it.
“You definitely should have seen this one guy at our table,” I told him. “What an idiot.”
The casting director, talking on her cell phone near us, took her phone away from her ear to respond to my comment.
“Excuse me,” she said indignantly. “I thought he was nice.”
And that was our cue to leave.