["Letting" is the operative word of the day! Gogol is letting people try things out on him. At the end of the day there's a fine print, of course, and that is it's an eye for and eye deal for those who decide they want to go too far.]

What can I say? I can be accommodating when I feel like it. With you and me it really seems like we got off on the wrong foot. I was thinking you could—

[Gogol lifts an arm to put emphasis on his words. In the same moment he casually leans sideways without leaving the chair. Just in time, it seems, considering the blade that embeds itself all the way through to the back of the flimsy plastic. There's hardly a pause where he taps a staccato beat against the arm of the chair before continuing.]

—vent about your hurt feelings. Then maybe you won't miss!