Page 60, aka "NO GOODBYE OR THANKS"
So Grey and Ana are sitting in his car listening to Flower Duet on repeat and Ana is like, "Is this the key to [Grey]? Music?" because he agrees with her that the music is good and Ana is like YES "a rare insight into his personal preferences"!
Because sitting in a super expensive SUV listening to opera isn't pretentious enough, when Ana asks if he likes classical music Grey responds, "My taste is eclectic, Anastasia, everything from Thomas Tallis [OLD AS BALLS english composer dude] to the Kings of Leon [slightly less old american rock band]", and GOD does he sound like a hipster, ew, ew, GET IT OFF
Grey rambles some more about how "esoteric" and yet "magical" his taste in music is, and he says he'll play Tallis for Ana and then turns on Kings of Leon??? Okay. Actually, "he presses a button, and the Kings of Leon start singing", which has me half-convinced that he has literally been hiding the Kings of Leon in the trunk of his car and the button lights up a big neon sign that says "SING NOW" and the poor kings all start singing desperately in chorus hoping that someone will come save them wOW that got kind of dark anyways they're singing "Sex on Fire" and Ana is like "how appropriate" (no, actually, she really says that) and then someone calls Grey (and it sounds over the speaker phones??? woah) aaaand that's the end of that!
NO MORE SEX ON FIRE FOR YOU, ANA!
Grey is like yo who's calling me and Welch is like yo it's Welch (side note: WELCH? As in WELCH'S FRUIT SNACKS?!) (headcanon: yes it is absolutely the Welch that created Welch's fruit snacks) (other side note: that shit is delicious)
Welch is described as "a rasping, disembodied voice" which is... yes generally how voices are when you hear them over a phone? How would you hear an embodied voice??
Welch has "the information [Grey] require[s]" and Grey is like okay email it to me and Welch is like okay and then they both hang up and if that wasn't the most pointless fucking call ever I don't know what was. Ana is like GASP GREY DIDN'T SAY "GOODBYE OR THANKS" and I was wondering what sounded so weird about this phrase and like, goodbye is the full version of bye but thanks is the short version of thank you and usually thank you comes before goodbye but then I realized that wasn't what was bothering me at all, I was just thinking of the song "So long and thanks for all the fish" which is, by the way, part of a much better series than this.
Ana "shudders" just thinking about working for Christian-Doesn't-Say-Thanks-or-Bye Grey, because he's so "controlling" and "cold", and the music which had turned back on turns off AGAIN because Grey gets another phone call;
"Grey."
--Christian Grey, answering the phone the same way EVERY SINGLE TIME
And some random woman is like "The NDA has been emailed" and Grey is like okay and hangs up and I swear to GOD if this is the same information Grey literally just told Welch snacks to email him I will... just.... THESE PHONE CALLS ARE SO POINTLESS
The music comes on again and guess what happens THIS TIME!!!!
....If you guessed it's the phone fucking ringing you guessed correctly TALK ABOUT RECYCLING PLOTLINES AMIRITE??
(Sadly?) it's not Welch fruit snacks on the phone, but someone else entirely. Someone we already know and love. Well, someone we already know, at any rate.
+50 phones-signal-the-end-of-society-as-we-know-it points for whoever correctly guesses who's calling! I don't think any of you are going to guess, but you guys do seem a hell of a lot more on top of things than Ana is, so you never know...
