Chris

“The idea being that even if John’s seat were positioned too far forward—limiting his legroom and reducing his level of physical comfort—the mere act of scooting it back a few inches was, by midwestern standards, a gratuitous waste of energy as well as an implicit admission that the scooter was the sort of person who could not handle a little bit of trouble.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde

“he had a Boston accent that could scrape the rust from a manhole cover.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde