"Damn right. Also, if we're being absolutely honest, a certain attractive individual also taking Latin might have been an influence on my decision." Look, he was a teenager; was he supposed to be able to control his desire?

"And yeah, it is. I did not have 'abducted by aliens' on my bingo card." He sort of regretted it as soon as he said it. Bingo was for old people, not that he played, of course, but why did it have to be the first thing he thought of?