Should have seen that coming, really. Instead of arguing about it, Melvin just sighed. Yeah, alright.
“… fair enough.”
At least he was aware of it. Which didn’t have a great deal of impact on how insufferable it was surely going to become over time. He couldn’t actually fault Jack for not wanting to do something tedious and boring - he was sure dragging his heels for similar reasons. Hold that thought again, remember ‘becoming insufferable over time?’
Roadie 🪶Jack Promise I won’t push ya off to your death or anything.
‘Over time,’ in this instance, must have meant ‘very quickly.’
Seriously, who SAYS that? Not that he took it as a serious threat or anything - he probably wouldn’t have even if he had somehow wound up on the roof(?) - but come on, man. The day was already going bad enough. The murder jokes could wait until everything had had a little more time to settle down. Sure, they were stuck for the foreseeable future, but How Much Worse Could It Get? It wasn’t worth picking a fight over.
“Well, if you promise then I guess there’s nothing to worry about. Can’t be too bad of a fall.”
Speaking of… he’s just gonna take a quick step back. No sense being in the impact zone if Jack fully slipped off. He was half expecting him to pull some more wacky acrobatics and save himself anyways. Maybe he’d have fun handling that, at least.
