Oh come on. [He quickly holds up a paw placatingly, quickly trying to recover.] Noooot that you haven't made a lot of progress. You have. And I appreciate that.
[He says it with a great deal of sincerity.]
Especially since you care if you get something wrong, enough to change it. Not many people do that. Not many people care. At all.
But that's an entirely different thing than taking this [he gestures vaguely at his face] home to the parents for a "guess who's coming to dinner" situation. Your parents are nice people and they have that business partner you told me about, but a business partner and police partner are not the same thing as a partner...partner.
And even if your parents accepted it, there's the entire rest of the world that wouldn't. Not that, you know, we have any kind of thing of any kind, but are you seriously trying to tell me that wouldn't affect your decisions at all? Not even a tiny bit?
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Oh come on. [He quickly holds up a paw placatingly, quickly trying to recover.] Noooot that you haven't made a lot of progress. You have. And I appreciate that.
[He says it with a great deal of sincerity.]
Especially since you care if you get something wrong, enough to change it. Not many people do that. Not many people care. At all.
But that's an entirely different thing than taking this [he gestures vaguely at his face] home to the parents for a "guess who's coming to dinner" situation. Your parents are nice people and they have that business partner you told me about, but a business partner and police partner are not the same thing as a partner...partner.
And even if your parents accepted it, there's the entire rest of the world that wouldn't. Not that, you know, we have any kind of thing of any kind, but are you seriously trying to tell me that wouldn't affect your decisions at all? Not even a tiny bit?