AUGH! As soon as I posted this, I started getting my own ideas for what it meant, and it was so different from what you gave me... I love this! I've alwasy thought Rodney was a sort of closet optimist in some ways, and I love that it's John that brings it out, and I love that that John's a closet pessimist, at least in this, and... *flail*

This is wonderful, sharp and achey... thank you, hon!