"That's what I thought! So I go to my party and come back a week later -- a week! This isn't even one of those stories where the magic eternal old man forgets to show back up for 60 years, or something, it was a week. And do you know what the poor guy had the audacity to go and do in that time? He died! He had some accident, I don't remember exactly what, but he died and the funeral had already even passed." He pauses. "But, you know, I do like to keep my word. So I did what any normal person would do in this situation."