"Kids do stupid things when they're irritated with one another and I didn't just develop this personality overnight." No, this has been his self-inflicted burden for many, many years.

"It made them want to act against me, so considering how many years I was around a lot of them six times isn't all that many." What a strange fate it should be that today hasn't felt half so unpleasant to him, injured and sore and the new victim of a hit-and-indentured-servitude but somehow in the back of his mind he's aware that it's not gone as badly as it could've.

"What you follow it up with is up to you. You could follow my format; state hobbies and your living situation, your age, that kind of thing. Do you really expect me of all people to teach you how to hold a conversation?"