Well, no punch to the face or smashing his beer bottle over his head - that was a good start to any Christmas. To have such thoughts were pretty common with this group, especially with some of them being who and what they were...
"Sounds like you have your work cut out for you." It was probably atrocious to deal with now, but everyone always said that they grew up very fast...
"Yeah - it's alright." Probably couldn't find the shirt now. It was definitely lying around somewhere at home - he didn't bring it with him to Hawaii.