Peculiar little thing, isn’t this? I will grant, not as peculiar as the particularly strange circumstance that finds me here rather than where I intended to be, which rather calls to mind a turn of phrase that a dear friendgreat lumbering oafincredibly taciturn menace with shoulders for days and a glower that could turn an unsuspecting man to stone former acquaintance of mine found apropos for a surprising breadth of situations, given how succinct it is-