Mrs. Murphy still had a lot of peach cobbler to eat, but Mr. Murphy had finished his. I had to shift my position, because the sofa was overly soft and therefore uncomfortable. It must be older than it looks. Anacostia's a dangerous place to live. Well, after being mugged over near Minnesota Avenue, I certainly couldn't dispute his point.
Human society is terribly chaotic.
It is the only Homelanderoid society in which one can sanely make a cogent case for the use of deadly force in self-defense against sentient beings. Of course, he had to get a gun permit and all, so he was right proud of it. I asked, impatient to get to the end of the story. So he handed back to the person who had it before, and it was passed on. Then it got to Fred.