"Okay, but," she says, clearly not interested in my book review of something I read like 10 years ago, "Shabbat's female, right? There's all this bride stuff about it."
"Yes," I say, "that's a common metaphor..." I'm traveling and tired so I don't see where we're going with this.
And I'm like, "Shine on, young Half-Price Books theologian." :-)