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when your character (who obviously does NOT watch enough TV) does and says this:

Ray groaned and closed his eyes. "Can this possibly get any more complicated?" he asked.

...you know, as an author, that the gauntlet has been thrown down. Didn't add any words past that, because I pretty much leaned back in my chair and thought "poor, poor, idiot protagonist" as all the myriad mean ideas started thundering in like the infamous berserker army of Character-smackdownistan.

oh, spammers, how you flatter me!

subject line: "our watch will look great on any loser".