"Look, I ain't a particularly towering man. Anyone over five foot ten gets slotted into the category of 'too tall to count' for me."

Which is why he hops up to sit on the bar, all the better to keep talking to Filbo.

"He's some sort of TV character. Big blue monster with fur who eats cookies by cramming them into his face. Pretty handsome." Dan's caught some Sesame Street in motels when he's been too drunk to change the channel. "Like a smaller version of you, without your attractive nose."