Maria

Maybe three, four, somewhere in there.

He would page Jeff and then Jeff would call me.

I guess there was a small element where, you know, you're feeling like kind of a rebel, you know, I'm going out, I'm gonna go do something I'm not supposed to do.

But I didn't really feel uncomfortable.

Somebody else might have been more nervous or thinking like, oh, is there somebody watching me?

But it felt like just as if I was taking a friend to go pick up their car and they were like, is that my car?

Oh, no, let's keep going.

I had that mentality, like, your place is to just hang out and not ask questions.

So I just sort of avoided the topic.

I think he said something like, you know, so you're not going to ask the obvious question.

I was like, well, you know, I don't want you to say anything you don't want to talk about or whatever.

And he's like, no, I don't care.

What questions you have.

I said, don't you feel kind of bad like that these people are going to come out of work and like not have a car?

And he's like, actually, I do feel bad.

He said, I always make sure to fill it with gas.

And I remember asking, why do you do this?

And he was like, well, I just don't have any other options.

And so I feel sorry for him.

It would have been at least several months since I had seen him.