"More than half the time something goes terribly wrong?" he asked, lazily, "Sounds a lot like what I was doing before! Count me in for possible exploding, imploding, or impaling." Then he shivered. "Maybe a little less the impaling. Wasn't too fond on it the last time."
He took another sip and held out his hand to shake.
"Wash, by the way," he said, finally introducing himself. "Volunteer crash dummy at your service."