How many times do I have to say it? You didn't give me eight thousand dollars. You bought a partnership in a business neither of us knows how to run. That money is in the company bank account and that's where it's staying. Unless you change your mind I guess.

[He scowls a bit. Not the best of patients, and annoyed at having this conversation again. Though the scowl gives way as the rest of that story sinks in. He shakes his head and frowns instead.]

Do you really think that? You're hanging out with the wrong people again. If someone laughed at that they're wrong. And if people are laughing at this they're wrong too. It's screwed up to hurt other people for fun. It isn't normal.