I'm not! [But lo, is that not hard evidence in his hands? Richie scoffs and gives an affable shove to Prior's shaking shoulders, but now the laughter's turning infectious. He fights to argue though burgeoning chuckles himself.

Could anything have been more ludicrous?]

For Pete's sake, I was trying to be nice! It was fifty-fifty if you were gonna stick that way, what I supposed to do? Leave you hanging? Call it a lost cause and say sayonara for good? Jesus!