This story opens with an attractive women walking into a diner and she yields a book. She sits down and begins to look at the menu. While preparing to enjoy a meal to herself, a man is sitting at the bar drinking a cup of coffee. He is dressed in lower quality attire. She does not pay him any attention. After she places her order with the waitress, he gets up from the bar and sits in front of her. Through a series of emotional and stereotypical topics, the man gives in to the inevitable that the women is un interested. He begins to get up and says to the women "You enjoy the rest of your day." As he signs his signature on the receipt that the waitress leaves on the table. As he walks out of the diner, the girl looks at the receipt and notices that it is the same signature that is written on the front cover of the book she is reading. She gasps in shock and looks outside at the man leaving. He is getting into a very high end sports car and pulling off. This story is meant to address the issue of judging a book by its cover.
—Nicholas Carr