… Are you particularly worried about people thinking you’re rude when you’re in a high stress, high tension situation?

Uh, rudeness is not the primary concern, no, though it is one of them.

Worried about people’s reactions to the rudeness?

That's closer.

Don't just shrug at me.

[ my whole selling point is that i have enough of a filter to exist as a functional member of society and am good enough at lying to make it seem like i'm not a completely useless piece of shit but now everyone is going to know just by being in the same room as me!!! this is like an attack on me personally!! you think any of those honest, unpretentious idiots are going to spend this week suffering like— christ stop fucking thinking this shit in front of people totty what is WRONG with you

goes into a barking fit halfway through that while attempting to say something to drown it out ]

[ just watches this like i see. ]

I am highly not qualified for this.

[ there’s issues here, totty. ]

You can function fine by balancing just enough of your unfiltered nature with the charm to make it work, you know.