just_displaced: (see what I mean)
Michael Ginsberg ([personal profile] just_displaced) wrote 2013-10-23 01:10 am (UTC)

"Probably not, but I think if that were my job, I'd come in after hours and rearrange them for fun, anyway. See how long it took people to notice that I was screwing around with the exhibit. You know, start with shifting little things around, like the trees or the grass. End up switching all the animals out and putting them in different cases."

He looks around covertly, like someone might be listening and assuming he's plotting to do something terrible to the displays at the museum, even if he has no way of getting inside the exhibits. Eventually, he pries himself away from the glass, peering one last time at the taxidermy animals, and checking to make sure Ned's still following him towards the next room. He could wander around this place all day, but he doesn't want Ned to get bored, and he's supposed to be making this a good date, right?

The next room is the one about the origins of human life. It's not as interesting to Ginsberg as the rooms full of animals, mostly because he's pretty sure he knows everything about humans that he needs to know: they're pretty awful, and they've probably been pretty awful ever since they showed up on the planet. He'll take a look at some of the exhibits, though, even if there's a big family standing in the way of the exhibit he wants to get a close look at, talking loudly about it. Loudness doesn't bother him -- he'd have to be pretty hypocritical to be irritated by loud people -- so he just tries to scoot closer to the exhibit, wishing he were as tall as Ned and could see over everyone's heads.

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