Two interesting things for me:
1. Chris-Chan dumped a Liquid Bob letter in the toilet. When will weens realize that pretending to be characters in Chris' life doesn't work.
It's worked in the past though. Chris has demonstrated the ability to be somewhat more skeptical, though he never truly learns when the contents of the communication make him feel good.
That said I wish we had a copy of that letter.
2. Chris believes his dream about getting arrested was prophecy, and considers his arrest as something that was "most likely in the majority of timelines". Does Chris believe he was destined to go to jail or something? That's pretty depressing to say about yourself.
When you or people you know go to jail regularly, you start to cope by thinking it's something normal you should be proud of rather than evidence of what a fuckup you are.
Lots of joggers in jogger culture talk with pride about how they did something abhorrent and spent time in jail/prison for it, and it elevates them among their peers. Not sure if Chris has enough bullshit weens that will praise him for his time in jail.
Who did he make this call to? I didn't realise that prisoners were allowed to make phone calls.
First of all, Chris is not a "prisoner" in the sense that he's in prison, only in that he is being kept confined. He is an inmate in jail. He is still innocent in the eyes of the law, and only kept in jail without bail as a precaution. In the past people in this situation were called "remand prisoners", but more recently the trend has been to call them "pre-trial detainees" or "pre-trial inmates" to make the distinction clear that they are not in prison.
Second, in both jail and prison, inmates are allowed to make phone calls. How else can they get ahold of their attorney quickly when needed? They are also generally allowed to make phone calls to family, friends, or anyone, really, as long as it's not someone they are specifically prohibited from contacting. The one caveat is that they usually have a small allowance for calls, and sometimes that allowance only allows to call their attorney. The rest of the calls cost an obscene amount of money -- either paid out of the inmate's account, or made as a stupidly expensive collect call.
Not long ago I kept getting calls from some random in jail who had the wrong number and was convinced I was the secret boyfriend of some gf of his or something. Asshole would not believe me and kept calling until I finally had to get the inmate phone service to block his calls to me.
