Who are you calling a HoHo?!?

"'You could have told me,' Farid said later. The two of us were lying next to each other on the straw mats Wahid's wife had spread for us.
'Told you what?'
'Why you'e come to Afghanistan.' His voice had lost the rough edge I'd heard in it since the moment I had met him.
'You didn't ask.'
'You should have told me.'
'You didn't ask.'" pg 239

This whole exchange just reminds me of some cliched bonding moment that one would see in a movie. It even uses the trite "You didn't ask (how virtuous I really was)" comeback. It's like they're twelve. Or maybe they're in Rush Hour and Farid is Chris Tucker and Amir is Jackie Chan. Now that I think about it, their whole Kabul-Peshawar-Islamabad ordeal seems kind of like a gorier misadventure of Rush Hour. I never thought I'd ever compare this book to that movie, but I think it just happened. Maybe Allah will strike me down because of it, but I think I'll take my chances.

I'm utilizing a religious motif today and would like to present to you

Our Lady of Perpetual Diet Coke.

You wanted a Diet Coke? You didn't ask, my child.