"Not beyond my mother's," she sighed. "She'd like you, if only because she'd think you were sane."
It was just ridiculous to even have this conversation but it was so weird she felt compelled to have it anyway. He wasn't trying to hurt or anything, not yet, so she would humor him.
Lydia walked back to the front counter (which was only a few feet away) and she grabbed her ukulele. Maybe she could sing him a song about what women liked. Well a woman likes a man who is a soft kinda man but not so soft that he sticks it in another... man. No, maybe not. Still she was getting fidgety around him and needed to occupy her hands.
She sat back down beside him and plucked the strings quietly, lips pressed together a moment as she considered his question.
"Okay. So you're saying you're from another culture... and another time? And I'm guessing back then all men were macho macho demandy types? Mostly? Well here that will get you what I'd like to call... skanky ass bitches. Skanky ass bitches probably have crabs or some other nasty STD because they are skanks. That means they sleep around and they like to sleep around with powerful guys that are all macho macho because supposedly they're good lays. I don't know this from experience, I am not a skanky ass bitch. I am an intelligent, and.. very mouthy woman, and if this girl he digs is at all like me then she probably wants to be seen as an equal, not like a skanky ass bitch who probably just wants to be seen on her knees. These days women are capable of being leaders and of being independent and he probably realizes that about her so he worries she might be too all about that and then he overthinks EVERYTHING so he's probably overthinking it to death which means you think he is weak when really he's just not good at following his gut with girls because let's face it, as a sex we are frightening regardless if we are skanks or intelligent. I think you should probably learn to work together. You need to not be Mr. Macho Macho Demando which is freaky and stiff and really annoying but you can teach him to be more confident in himself and his abilities, especially in the art of wooing a lady who is intelligent and in deciding whether or not to build a really crazy weapon that could be extremely dangerous as he seemed to be alluding. He doesn't have to make the weapon, it isn't weak to avoid making a weapon. Real power is recognizing your power and then being bad ass enough to set limits and not fuck everyone over because you're in control."
THE. END. Her mouth was very dry suddenly and she stopped messing with her ukulele.