Ricky Granite Has Never Seen a Bird Foot in His Life

Ricky Granite said WHAT about me?! He said I do not belong in the squared place?! He said -- and I am quoting this from memory, which is very good, Momma always said so -- he said I looked like I was lost?!

I am not lost. I have hand-drawn maps of my entire backyard. HAND-DRAWN. With a compass and everything. Ricky Granite probably cannot even spell compass!

Okay. Okay. I am being very calm right now. I am calm. I am Buster Blankenship and I am calm and I am ready and Momma -- Momma if you are watching this, I did not eat the crackers before dinner, I promise, that was a different time.

Ricky Granite looks like he has never once been afraid of anything in his entire enormous life, which is frankly suspicious and also very rude, and when we are in the squared place together under those lights that make my hair feel absolutely wrong, I am going to do the ending part to him so fast and so correctly that even the man with the stripes will be impressed, probably, I think, unless I forget how it goes again, which -- which I won't. I won't. ...Right?