“You ever watch Men in Black? Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, ‘I make this look good,’ all that jazz?”
“Of course.”
“It’s horseshit. We made it up. If the public thinks government agents go around in suits and sunglasses, we can go around in our actual uniforms and nobody will think twice about it.”
“I mean, I get it, but it’s a lot less classy.”
“Classy schmassy. I once had to smuggle an entire Neptunian armada out of Beaverlodge, Alberta. I had 20,000 warships in the back of a pickup truck, I wore the suit and nobody even asked me for a license.”
There was a furious silence as she grappled with this. Then: “Fine. Fine, I’ll wear the stupid vest.”
“Fantastic,” he said. “Welcome to the Men In Hi-Vis.”
