[ He's rather be black and blue from ink than bruises like so many other people, christ ]

How stupid... Why say it in the middle of the day, then? That person should save it for night, or people are going to forget earlier parts of the story.

[ That's why you tell bedtime stories, so it can be the last thing you remember before going to sleep and there's nothing else to shove it out of your head. This would be a great bedtime story, and it's being wasted being told at noon. ]