"You don't think I get enough curveballs when I spend time with Charlie back home?"
That bespeaks a certain kind of homesickness and sentimentality that he doesn't particularly want to get into, and he immediately regrets saying it. Sure, Charlie fucks with him all the time, in a similarly enthusiastic and completely asinine (yet surprisingly endearing) way, just like Al, but he's not here. Pointless to bring him up. He just stares at the horse for a moment, oddly surprised that Al's kept it around when it doesn't exactly seem like a prime racer. Oh well, maybe Al likes having a pet horse. Who's he to judge.
"Anyway," he says, forcibly drawing the topic back to something more, well, topical, "Maybe we could entertain ourselves in a way other than at my expense? Believe me, I'm not in control all the time."
That could be true. It also could be a futile protest to get Al to stop fucking with him. Either way, he does act like he's in control all the time, so by those standards, Al's probably well within his rights to continue the campaign to get him to loosen up.
Re: That's the best kind of birthday tbh
That bespeaks a certain kind of homesickness and sentimentality that he doesn't particularly want to get into, and he immediately regrets saying it. Sure, Charlie fucks with him all the time, in a similarly enthusiastic and completely asinine (yet surprisingly endearing) way, just like Al, but he's not here. Pointless to bring him up. He just stares at the horse for a moment, oddly surprised that Al's kept it around when it doesn't exactly seem like a prime racer. Oh well, maybe Al likes having a pet horse. Who's he to judge.
"Anyway," he says, forcibly drawing the topic back to something more, well, topical, "Maybe we could entertain ourselves in a way other than at my expense? Believe me, I'm not in control all the time."
That could be true. It also could be a futile protest to get Al to stop fucking with him. Either way, he does act like he's in control all the time, so by those standards, Al's probably well within his rights to continue the campaign to get him to loosen up.