"You psychoanalyze people through pie? Okay, I can see it. Makes about as much sense as any other way of doing it. What does it say about me that I ordered peach pie? Is that a good sign or a bad one? It must be an okay one, at least a neutral one, or you wouldn't be talking to me. Unless you have the habit of hanging around with terrible people. That's always possible."

He wonders if he should be noticing that he likes Ned's smile, and especially likes that it's not a mocking smile. He's been the recipient of enough mocking smiles in his life that he's learned to differentiate between genuine ones and teasing ones, and Ned's is definitely genuine. He likes that -- people are generally so damn disingenuous, he's never quite sure how to speak to them without offending them or making them uncomfortable.

He doesn't go to bars much, so he's never been to this one, but he's willing to follow Ned inside, looking around curiously. Of course, he immediately has to look at the TV and ascertain what program it's playing, and whether it'll be likely to be playing any of the ads he's had a part in. Wouldn't that be great, he thinks, if he could show Ned one of his ads on TV? That'd be impressive, right?

And why, exactly, does he want to impress this guy, anyway?