More like hobbies to keep me outta it, when I was that age. [The admission came with a crooked curl of his smile.] Didn't start puttin' people in 'em til I was 21.

[He nodded his head up the road as his long legs started him again in that direction.]

Throwin' rocks at the ocean, huh? Workin' on your throw or tryin' to 'stick it to the waves'?