Text to Clint Barton

[xp_cannonball]

[1/2] Hi, it's Sam. The bartender from Kirby's?
[2/2] Did you mean to give me your number?

Comments

[xp_hawkeye]

[1/7] Hey man. Yeah, I meant to. Figured
[2/7] you might need some help later.
[3/7] And it's always nice, being on good
[4/7] terms with the bartender. Might
[5/7] make Kirby's a regular stop when
[6/7] I'm in the city, now. District-X
[7/7] has really kicking up the businesses.

[xp_cannonball]

[1/2] We're usually okay, I'm pretty good at handling most issues that walk through the door. Thank you though.
[2/2] Yeah, business has been picking up which is great for tips. Nice to see people coming out to support local businesses. Makes the city feel less isolating.

[xp_hawkeye]

[1/12] You feeling isolated?
[2/12] Like, in general in life or like
[3/12] cause of something else? I know
[4/12] those guys were assholes last night
[5/12] but DX is usually pretty great
[6/12] about keeping an eye on their own.
[7/12] I let some friends here know
[8/12] what went down and they've got
[9/12] some friends who'll hang out there
[10/12] just to make sure everything's cool.
[11/12] Or like is the the kinda isolated
[12/12] where you wanna talk to a professional?


Sent a few moments later...


[1/4] No judgement, man. Seriously.
[2/4] I grew up in NYC, so I can definitely
[3/4] get you connected with people
[4/4] if you want/need.

[xp_cannonball]

[1/6] Oh I'm fine.
[2/6] Right as rain.
[3/6] Yes sir nothing a matter here.
[4/6] I'm just from a small town and don't rightly know how cities work.
[5/6] I also don't understand how the north works, feels like y'all're mean to each other up here and there's far too many of ya to make sense of it all.
[6/6] Seriously, all good.

[xp_hawkeye]

[1/10] Bro. Bro, that was a lot of denying
[2/10] for a guy who's saying he's fine.
[3/10] And that's fine if you don't want
[4/10] anybody being in your business
[5/10] but on the other hand I have this friend
[6/10] Kyle and he's into English a lot
[7/10] and I'm pretty sure he'd basically
[8/10] you're protesting too much.
[9/10] Tomorrow night's Saturday, I'll bring
[10/10] some friends to Kirby's and introduce you.

[xp_cannonball]

[1/1] Sure. Sounds good.

After several minutes.

[1/1] Thanks.

[xp_hawkeye]

Yeah, no prob. It'll be great.

[xp_cannonball]

[1/2] Paige. I'm being mocked by God. [2/2] First Tyler Childers releases a gay mining song and then I get fussed over buy a guy from the bar? And I can't even talk to Mama bout it yet cause she don't know I'm queer...at least Dolly played on the speakers at work today?

two minutes later

[1/2] FUCK. [2/2] Thought I was texting my sister. You didn't see those please and thank you.

[xp_hawkeye]

[1/4] See what, man?
[2/4] Like I said, no judgement.
[3/4] But now I gotta look up that Tyler Childers song.
[4/4] Have you ever heard anything by Orville Peck?

[xp_cannonball]

[1/2] It's "In Your Love" the music video is where it's about the miners. [2/2] Yes of course, although I do tend to listen to more Dolly and Loretta than modern stuff.

a moment later [1/1] I used to be a coal miner so it was a little on the nose.

[xp_hawkeye]

[1/5] I listen to whatever Pandora plays
[2/5] for me when I'm at work. And lately
[3/5] that's been a lot of Orville Peck
[4/5] ever since I made a station based
[5/5] off his cover of 'Fancy.'


Several minutes later...


[1/3] Yeah, man, I can see what that'd hit hard.
[2/3] But you're like. Okay, look, don't take
[3/3] this in a weird way, but you're like healthy?

[xp_cannonball]

[1/2] Ain’t got black lung and I know all the symptoms so I know what to look for.
[2/2] did get bout half blown up a few years back but I’ve healed up pretty good

[xp_hawkeye]

[1/4] So at first I was like, 'Wait halfway blown up what'
[2/4] but then I remembered some of the things I've been
[3/4] through in my life and like. I'm not a hypocrite.
[4/4] But still, try and stay away from explosives if you can.

[xp_cannonball]

[1/2] That was about 7 years now. I’m not even on a team, explosives and I don’t have much opportunity to mix these days.
[2/2] Also for the record everyone survived that mine collapse, and none of us have died yet so nothing to worry about.