You have the speech ready. You have had it ready since the bus.
Two years, the job went in September, then the mornings went, then everything after that.
You will deliver it, unprompted, to the second person who says hello.

Notice what the speech is actually for.
It is not honesty — you are honest anyway, sometimes to the point of a nuisance.
It is that if you say it first, nobody else gets to,
and you have never in your life let anybody else set the terms of a thing said about you.

The Book of the Fallen — Arrival 63:2