He seemed to take the silent invitation for what it was without question and that was a relief, because that meant he wasn't going to give her a chance to firmly insert her foot into her mouth. He introduced himself in return and the name wasn't familiar; Joey thought he must be one of the newer ones. "Yeah, me either," she agreed. "I've been here like two weeks and I'm still not. It's hard to get used to something that's always changing in weirdo, fucked up ways," she explained.
In spite of herself, a giggle bubbled up and she shook her head. "Like it is always trying to tickle us? No, definitely not. That's new," she replied, smiling. "That's about the least weird thing that's happened here, as far as I'm concerned. I'm cool with tickle grass as long as the trees don't get all rapey with me like they did that new guy Kit," she added, wrinkling her nose. "Poor guy."