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"I'm sorry to meet you," he said. He looked perfectly serious. His face had that sort of distant, a bit detached regret that one might use if one had bumped into a stranger and spilled their coffee, or taken their taxi, or accidentally closed a door in their face. It wasn't what anyone would expect from a speed dating scene. "What?" she stuttered. "I never thought you'd be here--it's really not your usual scene at all, Kate." Creepier and creepier. She'd told him her name, of course, but she'd used the full name, Katherine. And he didn't say it like a man making a nickname to be annoying.

Inspiration: Title of "Lethal Death Note Weapon" video, plus a thumbed-down song on Pandora, some annoying alt-rock thing.
Story Potential: High...
Notes: ...but pretty much for an urban fantasy/romance. I blame the audiobook I was listening to.
The license agreement popped up as she slid inside the taxi-autodrive. Bored, she pressed her thumb to the panel, agreeing the usual contract of payment for all injuries and damage to the vehicle that might be sustained while she rented it. She'd become bored with that, now, but it had taken her a while. She still had vivid memories of what had happened to her last three cars. But that was why she'd switched to taxis after all, right? On the theory that somebody could rig her car to blow, if she had a car, but they could hardly get all the taxis out there. And if the taxi she was in did blow up, she would hardly be worried about a little indemnity agreement. It was also the reason that she--

Inspiration: A license agreement for a stupid Java update.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: I say low because there's not really a story here, but I do like the feel of the setting and the character.

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