[...You know, that actually gets him to pause in his folding for a moment and just kind of...stare at the blank space about three inches in front of his face? Like he's actually having to consider that for a moment.]

...I'm not sure what I hate most about this, but it's probably the part where I'm legitimately not sure which of those would do it. I'm not even trying to get sympathy for that, like my life is terrible or anything, because it's not. I just have no idea whether any of that would actually upset me, and now is really not the time for me to decide to do some goddamn soul-searching to see what the fuck is broken in there now.