Ianto smiled, recognizing that John was being that way on purpose, recognizing that he really was enjoying the cappuccino. Ianto was glad. He genuinely liked to serve people, to get these things right. Not for the first time, he contemplated having been a butler or a dresser in an earlier life, for all he got a feeling of accomplishment after seeing to it that things got done in the way they should, and that everyone was happy and the better for it.
Ianto sat back against the counter. "Well, honestly, if I'd picked someone else, I don't really think I would've started an argument about rugby, but. I probably would've picked a fight about something else, and maybe they wouldn't have taken it nearly as well as you did. People can do some pretty stupid things when they're drunk." And when they're looking to vent frustrations, apparently, if Ianto's drunkenly picking fights with strangers was anything to go by. "You'll... You'll have to excuse my behavior. Someone showed up on the community that I honestly didn't think I'd ever see again, and well. It stirred up some unpleasant memories that apparently I had less control over than I might've thought. I'm not... Not usually one to pick drunken text fights with people, as it is."
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Date: 2010-10-18 05:25 pm (UTC)Ianto sat back against the counter. "Well, honestly, if I'd picked someone else, I don't really think I would've started an argument about rugby, but. I probably would've picked a fight about something else, and maybe they wouldn't have taken it nearly as well as you did. People can do some pretty stupid things when they're drunk." And when they're looking to vent frustrations, apparently, if Ianto's drunkenly picking fights with strangers was anything to go by. "You'll... You'll have to excuse my behavior. Someone showed up on the community that I honestly didn't think I'd ever see again, and well. It stirred up some unpleasant memories that apparently I had less control over than I might've thought. I'm not... Not usually one to pick drunken text fights with people, as it is."