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I do what I want. You gotta admit though, it does get pretty annoying at times.

I don't think so, but I can accept your opinion. 

Of course you are! I can see it in your eyes!

No, really, I can appreciate creativity, but I can rarely produce it myself.

Don’t worry, it’s not hard at all!

Oh but I'm really not the best when it comes to anything creative.

Exactly. We all love boats here. You should make them in all kinds of different colors and sizes!

Well first you have to teach me you ways!

Maybe you should. Everyone loves boats.

Is that true? I mean, I guess here in Maine everyone definitely love boats. I'll start making them when there's no customers to pass the time.

I am happy, babe. Just not the peppy or cheerful kind of happy.

Well, I guess that's good. Everyone has different ways of being happy. You shouldn't write off someone else's, though!

Oh, yes, of course!

Although maybe you shouldn't, because I'd just cover the store in boats everywhere.

Well, you did hurt him!  And his family and friends!  God, Delly!

I just wanted to rescue the princess, Joey.

It just gets annoying after a while.

Well...I just think you don't want to be happy.

I think they’d like them for chewing purposes. Though I’d teach them how to fold the pages into little boats.

Paper boats are slightly more useful in my opinion. Can you teach me how?

They might have even had a little family that they wanted to get back to.  but, now they never will because you let them die.

Oh my gosh! It's like you're trying to actually make me cry. I never meant to hurt anybody! I just wanted that little flappy bird to find where he belongs.

You have.  It was counting on you and you totally destroyed it.  Think of all the hopes and dreams it had that you killed when you let it die.

Don't say that! I already get sad enough as it is, Joey!

Why do I need to write essays all the time? Toddlers are not going to read any of those! I might as well be learning how to take care of a goldfish.

Could you imagine if toddlers read essays? I wonder what they'd think of them.

That’s what the reset button is for, though.

But the actual act of dying is what freaks me out, even if it's just my character. I just feel like I've let the little thing down.

Maybe you’re just really bad at video games.

Oh, I definitely am. I get really stressed out too because I'm afraid to die in them.

I tried.  I couldn’t get past like… five, so I gave up.

I couldn't even get past the first one! My brother made me play it like, a million times and I just couldn't do it. I had to like, meditate afterwards. Not really...but almost.

Cheerful people are just too.. peppy, I guess.

What's...the matter with peppy?