JD:  I got fired!

AFP:  What?

JD:    You heard me right.

AFP:   Fired?

JD:   Again.

AFP:  Why? How? When?

JD:    Why? I really don't know. 

         How? That's a stupid question that I need not to answer.

         When?  Today       

AFP:  I'm confused.

JD:    I second that.

AFP:  What did you do?

JD:   I loved my job and I did it well - thoroughly and ethically

AFP:  Ethically?

JD:    You know me.  I always tell the truth, even if the truth will hurt me.

AFP:  Did it?

JD:    Yes.

AFP:  But why?

JD:    Because there's something inherently wrong with me. 

AFP:  There's nothing inherently wrong with you.

JD:    Yes there is.

AFP:  No there's not.

JD:    If you're right and there's nothing "inherently" wrong with me then tell me why this had to happen again, especially right now, when I'm still fucked up over round one with the Goons and Dear Lawyer.

AFP:  You're not 'fucked up' and there's nothing inherently wrong with you.    

JD:     Sigh.

AFP:   Now what?

JD:     I don't know. 

AFP:   What are you going to do?

JD:     What I'm going to do is one thing, and what I want to do is another....

AFP:   Ok.  What do you want to do?

JD:      I want to fire people.

AFP:   What?

JD:     I want to fire people.

AFP:   I gotta hear this. Tell me more.

JD:    Tell you what?

AFP:   Damn! Some things will never change.

JD:     What does that supposed to mean?

AFP:   It means you still answer questions like a Litigant.

JD:     So?  What's wrong with that?

AFP:   Nothing.

JD:     Good.

AFP:   You're losing me.

JD:     Good.

AFP:   Is that all you can say?

JD:    What exactly do you want me to say?

AFP:  I want you to tell me why you want to fire people.

JD:   I want to fire people because people who are in the position to fire people,  don't know how to do it, and when they do, they fuck up, and when they fuck up, that's when lawsuits happen.

AFP:   I never thought about it in that context before, and the more I think about it, you're absolutely right.  

JD:     I am.

AFP:   There's more to this isn't there?

JD:     Yup.

AFP:   What?

JD:      Let's talk about it a later. I'm kind of upset, and I'm kind of freaking out  about today.

AFP:  Fair enough. 

JD:     -----

AFP:   Justice?

JD:     What?

AFP:   You'll be okay.  This won't be anything like the last round.

JD:     Maybe. I don't know.

AFP:   I can tell something happened and you're not telling me.

JD:     I told you.  I got fired. What more is there to tell?

AFP:   Something happened...that got you fired.

JD:     I think so.

AFP:   I know so.

JD:     Oh yeah?

AFP:   Yeah.

JD:     ------  

AFP:   Whatever it is, I'm sure it's hot.

JD:     Too hot.