"Why do you only listen to heavy metal, Jamie?"
His eyes were hidden behind his shades as always, but Jamie took a couple seconds to slowly exhale his cigarette smoke before he answered.
He knew Jamie well enough by now to know that specific pause. It meant Jamie was deciding whether to tell the truth, or spit out some bullshit.
Jamie finally said, "No love songs."
He didn't know Jamie so well he could tell which answer he chose.

@ryanhoulihan Wolverine, Daria, and Lazy Smurf. The lazy Smurf part is why there's no gifs.

@ryanhoulihan A lot of human social problems might relate back to when we evolved as tribal hunter gatherers. We had to care what the group (a small group of people we knew personally) thought of us because if we were ever rejected from the tribe, odds of survival alone were close to zero. And the time it took for us to develop our current civilization is a nanosecond as far as evolving new instincts goes, so we're still adjusting, rapidly and painfully. But we've built a civilization nothing like that, where we generally can get food and shelter without anyone's approval. (Thank you, social safety net and uh capitalism, I guess?). Just a theory.