"They're just all into books and newspapers and not doing math," Topher dismissed with a wave of his hand. "I sometimes do their taxes."

Poorly, but at least the math was right!

"Intense like movie dads, with the whole 'you hurt my daughter and blah blah blah I have a pointy rake' type thing?" Topher wasn't great at coming up with threatening lines, even when he was assigning them to other people. "...That probably isn't the best threat, you could just... magnet the flat end of the rake to your face or something..."

Yeah, he'd managed to distract himself.