'Have I at last met a foeman worthy of my steel?'

Thus I penned in my diary the week after meeting Michael. And indeed, subsequent acquaintance has proven only how able he is to match wits with and even outsmart me. This is highly entertaining and endearing. For instance. Last night he called to let me know that he was on his way home from work. We chatted for a few minutes, and then there fell a lull over the conversation. After a moment I started to say something at the exact moment he began, 'Have you ever been to-?' Of course we both stopped mid-sentence. 'You go ahead.' 'No, you first.' 'No, really, you go.' At last I agreed to go first, on condition that he not forget what he was about to say, and spoke my piece, inconsequential as it was. 'Now what were you going to say?' He started laughing. 'Nothing!' 'What?!' 'When it fell silent, I thought, Any minute now she'll start to say something, so I just made up a random sentence fragment to torment you with. Just playing with your mind, Love!' Ha! How does he do it? He's the only person who can play such effective mind games with me.