He watches for a moment, the picture of a thoughtful drunk. And then he laughs and leans back in the booth bench, relaxing with the last of his drink.

"Do people usually start conversations over the bad kind of reminders?" It's something of a challenge in its own right, with the suggestion obvious that he came to this seat with the intention of talking about only good things. "They usually start fights over that," he reasons, lifting his drink as if to salute his point and then downing the last of it.