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"Laurie, you're an old man now." "Y'know, you talk an awful lot
of crap," Laurie said, doing the thing where he looked sideways, out
over the street, talking at the same time while he inhaled on his
cigarette. When he finished doing this he'd cock an eye back at his
interlocutor to add some sort of sting. "I'm hurt that you'd say that to
me." "You're not hurt." "How can you say that?" "If you got a phone call
from some job application right now, one that would maybe, say, double
your pay for half the work, or whatever," he leaned in slightly, "you'd
be talking shit on that phone thick and fast." "If the equivalent thing
happened to you, you'd do the same." Laurie took some interest in his
fried tomatoes before rejoining, "no, no I wouldn't." "Like hell you
wouldn't! If you were offered a one way ticket to freedom, you'd take
it!" "That's not what I'm talking about." "What are you talking about,
then? What are we talking about?"