[ WOW!! also you gotta ask otherwise, ] You are always underestimating me, aren't you?

[ mock pity and offence both in that tone - he's clearly playing, settling easy back into routine. a very quickly formed one, and as easy as breathing. a marked relief, from this week. from everything. ] Think I can't hold my liquor, either - I was a soldier, [ for five minutes ] you know!

Besides, someone has to get you off the ground from the heap you find yourself in if you're stumbling out in a stupor.