[...why does he suddenly get the feeling that this is going to end with his hand splayed out on the table.]
...Yes, sir.
[NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT THIS MAN HAS BEEN ERRONEOUSLY DUBBED "BRAVE".]
Right away.
[He says, retrieving a chair from one of the other tables and dragging it over obediently (and apologetically, in the case of the waitress whose trajectory he briefly disrupts in his haste).]
no subject
...Yes, sir.
[NEVER LET IT BE SAID THAT THIS MAN HAS BEEN ERRONEOUSLY DUBBED "BRAVE".]
Right away.
[He says, retrieving a chair from one of the other tables and dragging it over obediently (and apologetically, in the case of the waitress whose trajectory he briefly disrupts in his haste).]