1st Kick | [audio]

[windsorknot]

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[The tone is calm and measured, each word enunciated as clearly as possible.]So I take it that it's normal for people to just appear out of thin air in this city

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[orangetoughguy]

I wouldn't call it a prison.

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[windsorknot]

A surprisingly comfortable holding facility, then.

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[orangetoughguy]

Kind of like a weigh station?

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[windsorknot]

Or purgatory. Depending on what you believe in.

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[orangetoughguy]

Too many people for that if you ask me.

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[windsorknot]

Weigh station, it is. Which would imply that we're all headed for some destination, wouldn't it?

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[orangetoughguy]

But physically or metaphorically?

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[windsorknot]

Physically, I'd say old age and boredom. Metaphorically, it could be anything.

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[orangetoughguy]

You're a laid back kind of guy aren't you?

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[windsorknot]

I've been described more than once by my coworkers as a 'stick in the mud,' actually.

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[orangetoughguy]

I wouldn't know if I've met any of them so I gotta go on your word, my man. Lucky you.

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[windsorknot]

I'm not sure if I'd call ending up here 'lucky,' but I appreciate the sentiment all the same.

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I'm Arthur, by the way.

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[orangetoughguy]

It's probably a case by case sort of thing, Arthur. Maybe there's some guy out there who just goes fuckin' crazy whenever one of his colleagues calls him a stick in the mud. He's lucky if he shows up here alone.

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[windsorknot]

Then I'd say that his colleagues would also be lucky if he showed up here alone. And that we'd be the unlucky ones.

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[orangetoughguy]

I hope that ain't your way of saying I'm the unlucky one here too.

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[windsorknot]

I'm a stick in the mud that isn't really known for flying off the handle, if that's what you mean.