"No, I was thirty by then. I just had this weirdo roommate at the time who was insistent on 'all natural remedies' instead of, like, normal meds, and one night I came back completely hungover and he kept insisting on it. I just took one if it got him to shut up."

... Right, that doesn't make him sound great. "I was kind of a chump back then. Wonder where he is."

He lets Ossie do his thing and bides his time as he waits, idly poking more holes through his pancakes. Doing a real great job of fluffing them up over here.