Good lord, they're called "accidents" for a reason you jerk! I suppose your driving record is perfect, eh? And since when did being a bad driver automatically make a person a romantically undesirable human being anyway?
People tend to believe that others are more like them than is true sometimes. He would have run over the rose intentionally, and worse probably, so he projects the same motivation into his perceptions of Betta Oph's description. I really wanted to get seriously derogatory (I consider "jerk" to be mild, I qualify in an uncomfortable proportion of the time) about Al but deleted the comment, I am trying to keep my posts civil. But it would have felt so good ...
