"Hmm yes," he said as he moved to retrieve his coat from its hook. "While I can't speak for what your father or his parents thought, mine were never especially interested in my willingness to respect others. More in putting me in a position where other would be forced to respect me."

"My father wanted me to become an engineer, like himself; my mother, meanwhile, wanted me to go into finance. Other than it being reasonably legible for school assignments and such, neither of them especially care what my handwriting looked like. In their minds I had far more important things to focus on, though they seldom agreed on what those things should be on any given day."