Re: At the bar: Grant S/Cris M
"Is this a cop bar?" Grant asked, with genuine interest, looking around again as if the contents of the place were all going to reach into their coat pockets and take out badges to flash at him for effect.
Grant turned to look sideways at him, faintly embarrassed and simultaneously amused at the use of the word "bumpin'" which he had not yet heard ascribed to music or anything but trucks on bad roads and uglies, the latter being described to him in detail by a young man on a recent mission. Grant had a clinical curiosity about what exactly the "uglies" were; he had a good guess, but it didn't seem like a flattering term. He gathered that Cris meant a different kind of 'bumpin',' a complex take that he managed to encompass with a faintly rueful smile and a shake of his head as he lifted the beer to his lips again.