if you provide them with something to like, then take it away unexpectedly, they will be like: wuh? oh. thank you sensei.

and i never call them grasshopper.

maybe the lesson wasn't about trust, actually. no one said thank you. why would they? maybe it was about, i don't know. friendship or something.

sometimes they still ask for me back. maybe not as much as i'd like. it's like "i'm right here! just look! duh!" the name is different, but my style is discernible as fuck, no? maybe not as much as i'd like.

but i know that to go looking for something you're not sure is even there is hard sometimes.