IC CONTACT.

[osreborn]

(555 - 888 - 3010)

"Norman Osborn. If you're calling about a job interview, hang up now and call [ business phone number ]. Otherwise stay on the line and leave a message. I'll get back to you when I can."

beep!

calls | voice mail | text messages | email

Comments

[enigmaestro]

Plenty of fish in the sea, Norman.

[osreborn]

I always prefer to be more discriminating.

[enigmaestro]

That's why people think you're the villain of this narrative.

[osreborn]

"People."

I've made my amends. I think you're the one who's the subject of the scrutinizing gaze of people.

[enigmaestro]

If you think a would-be Fortune Five Hundred business like Oscorp isn't under severe scrutiny, then you're delusional.

Oh wait.

[osreborn]

Not under the same scrutiny as the Deputy Mayor. Not even close.

[enigmaestro]

Is this your confession? Are you watching me closely, Mr. Osborn?

[osreborn]

I'm not a religious man. I don't do confession.

[enigmaestro]

I was thinking more judicially, really, and less Judas. [A beat.]

Hartford was always more Catholic, if I recall correctly.

And I do.

[osreborn]

Luckily enough, I'm neither Catholic nor under oath. What a boon that is for conversation.

[enigmaestro]

Were you? Catholic, I mean.

[osreborn]

No.

My family was Methodist.

[enigmaestro]

Oh, that must have made you real popular in school.

[osreborn]

I never said I was practicing.

[enigmaestro]

Still. It's such fun to learn your details.

Did you have many friends, in high school? I'm sure you didn't.

[osreborn]

That's a new tangent.

What about you?

[enigmaestro]

So I'll take that as a resounding no. And I'm not the one being questioned now, am I?

Any girlfriends, of your youth?

... Or boyfriends?

[osreborn]

I don't answer questions about my personal life.

[enigmaestro]

College, then? Probably college, you would have had better access to resources, would've founded your identity as an intellectual in an appreciative atmosphere.

Was it a professor, then? Your mentor?

[osreborn]

Treading dangerous ground.

I said I wouldn't answer.

[enigmaestro]

I hope you weren't taken advantage of, Norman.

That would be rather embarrassing, wouldn't it?

[osreborn]

Indeed. It would be.

If you must know, I did have a girlfriend.

[enigmaestro]

Oh? Did she know that she was your girlfriend?

[osreborn]

We got married.

[enigmaestro]

To your first girlfriend? Married?

Goodness, Norman, I mistook you for the noncommittal type. Or at least the experimental.