you'll fake it if you have to (you'll be positive, though it hurts)

[erika]

On our way back from seeing M3B:

me, excited: -pointing- That's where Lydia used to live! Right about there, anyway.

panda, dutifully: Yep.

Me, thoughtfully: Once I went over to her apartment and put all her dishes into her bathtub.

Chance: ...

Lydia, amused: Your stories are much funnier without context.

Me, brightly: Why do you think I tell them that way?

Later:

Chance, as if he's saying something he knows he's going to regret: You put all her dishes into her bathtub?

Me, consideringly: Yes. Without the context it sounds kind of like an asshole move, doesn't it?

Chance, brightly: Isn't that the other reason you tell them that way?

(Sometimes it's inconvenient
having my closest friends
know so much about me,
is all I'm saying.)