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[alex_pope]

I'll just ask:

Is there some reason that almost everyone, upon meeting me, sees fit to threaten me with immediate or future bodily harm?

Is there?

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[eliza_phelp]

Maybe it's the people you're meeting.

Or maybe people sense that you haven't got a backbone and get pissed off and then act on it.

[alex_pope]

I do so have a backbone! An entire spinal column, actually, which is about twenty-four.

[eliza_phelp]

Good God. Your dorkiness is showing.

Moving on... Do you know what a backbone if for, Alex?

[howie_lovie]

I do it to everyone.

[alex_pope]

I'm beginning to notice that, yes. It's still un peu...creepy, though.

[howie_lovie]

I hadn't noticed.

[burning_blake]

Don't mind them. They're just trying to impress each other.

When, by the way, do you want to use my printer?

[alex_pope]

Okay, I commandeered Lawrence's and Jane's last night; I think I can use yours this afternoon--is four good for you? I have paper. And I'll replace your ink.

Thanks, Blake. I owe you a dangerous, embarassing favor.

[burning_blake]

Four is fine. Meet me in the parking lot, then?

I will try to smuggle you past the various charming but obstreporous obstacles in my house, but if I don't succeed, you might not WANT to thank me.

Hmmm. Maybe we should climb the tree into my window. We'll see.

[alex_pope]

Is fear an appropriate reaction?

I'll be in the parking lot promptly. With a car repair manuel, to be prepared in the event of an emergency/the inevitable.

[bipoelar]

As I recall, I offered lockpicking tools and a pastry...

My cooking isn't that abysmal.

[alex_pope]

I was more referring to people who threaten to cut my hands off.

Which you never did, and for which I thank you profusely. I'm sure your cooking isn't fatal in the least.

[bipoelar]

I could threaten something dire if it would make you feel more at home...

[alex_pope]

It's really fine, but kind of you to offer. Have you considered writing for the paper?

[howie_lovie]

Alexander, my printer is quite fast. You can use it, but it stays here.

Now is a good time, by the way.

[alex_pope]

Grand! How do I get to your house?

I am blithely ignoring any and all spider/fly references that my brain is coming up with. All of them.

[bipoelar]

Come to think of it, I believe the printer is, in fact, in what was once the parlour.

Delicious metaphor, if you'll forgive the pun.

[alex_pope]

This idea is sounding worse and worse by exponents.