"I'm always game for a long story, but if it's a long and uncomfortable one..." Which he's getting the impression that it absolutely is. "- well, I'm not about to press on anything you don't want to talk about."

He's no stranger to the awkward and uncomfortable backstory game, after all.

"I'm getting the impression that a lot of us have bigger things going on back home that we need to deal with. I wonder if that's somewhere in their hiring criteria."