Lance is listening to nothing at all and feeling like he has a cold pit in his stomach.

Everybody has met a person that rubs them the wrong way. If you haven't, you will. It's the kind of person that, no matter what they say or do, offends you. They're offending to talk with, to look at, to hear.

I've got one of those sitting about 5 feet from me. I don't know what the hell happened, because we used to be pretty good friends. Somewhere along the line, however, things went sour. More on that later.