and even if they didnt mean what they said about drowning people , i think its pretty obvious that they wouldnt want to talk to me if they knew . i sort of want to be an ass and ignore him now , too , but i do n't . he left the bike there ; no one else was going to need it . he did n't need further identification , since there was only one hardware store in town , and he was the only one who answered the phone . 