[It best to hell be, he thinks to himself, but has just enough self-control not to actually say out loud. The same goes for the disparaging remarks he could make about the repairman.]
I'm hopin' so. I'm on my way there now. [He smiles at her in a way that's meant to be reassuring. Unfortunately for Jesse, he's never been all that good at smiling in a reassuring way, especially when he's in a mood like this. It just ends up looking like someone smiling in response to something someone just said that they didn't quite catch, but they don't want the other person to know they stopped paying attention just long enough to miss the heart of what they said. Still, he tries.] You worked on pipes before?
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I'm hopin' so. I'm on my way there now. [He smiles at her in a way that's meant to be reassuring. Unfortunately for Jesse, he's never been all that good at smiling in a reassuring way, especially when he's in a mood like this. It just ends up looking like someone smiling in response to something someone just said that they didn't quite catch, but they don't want the other person to know they stopped paying attention just long enough to miss the heart of what they said. Still, he tries.] You worked on pipes before?