"Thanks." That is a neat trick worth learning. A conversation piece, if you will. Anything to impress the ladies, right? Actually that's more likely to impress the men, but hey, whatever works.

"Don't remember much about it, to be honest. My dad died when I was born, and after that Mother took some time off from the fleet, remarried a shitpile, and we spent our younger years at the family farm in Iowa." Jim takes a swig form the beer and watches a chunky triceratops be sassy to the other dinotykes.

"That's basically a redneck middle of nowhere town where cattle outnumber people in the middle of the United States. Which, before you ask, is the same country Verity is from just way in the future."