premise: "The year I was in Portland and working at a car rental place, <hypo>, if I had one more puffed-up man come in and tell me I had to upgrade him to a Cadillac, 'So I can impress the ladies.' Wink, wink." I laugh at her imitation of the middle-aged suburban cheapskate dreaming of being a Lothario.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "I thought I might die, or explode into a million pieces"