"Duct tape," he said immediately. "That's about as handy as I get."
It was just a fact that something was always falling apart in his old neighborhood, but anything more involved than hammers and screws was beyond him. He'd always joked with the old lady who'd raised him that he just wasn't a very constructive person. Trying to pick things in the two years after the kaiju attack on Telluride, he'd wished he'd been wrong.
He shook his head a little to clear it--was the whole interview going to be like this, constantly bringing his thoughts back to his hometown? He could blame that on the company, at least.
Still, he'd like to avoid it. He tilted his head, looking at the list without really reading it as he pondered his return question. "... What about you? Find yourself doing much home improvement around base these days?"
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It was just a fact that something was always falling apart in his old neighborhood, but anything more involved than hammers and screws was beyond him. He'd always joked with the old lady who'd raised him that he just wasn't a very constructive person. Trying to pick things in the two years after the kaiju attack on Telluride, he'd wished he'd been wrong.
He shook his head a little to clear it--was the whole interview going to be like this, constantly bringing his thoughts back to his hometown? He could blame that on the company, at least.
Still, he'd like to avoid it. He tilted his head, looking at the list without really reading it as he pondered his return question. "... What about you? Find yourself doing much home improvement around base these days?"