( Why does he ever actually try guessing? Why does he ever think he could know the answer when Jerry asks that? Electricians — Jack just blinks, leaving Jerry plenty of time to jump into his explanation. )

That sounds... awful. Like a really, really bad idea. ( And yet, here he is putting his book down and slowly sitting up — hair all a-ruffle from the pillow like a disgruntled bird. It's for the conversation, he tells himself. He's just sitting up to be polite. ) Jerry, I don't know the first thing about— being an electrician. If I'm being totally honest, I only have like two percent of an idea of how electricity even works. Don't take a bubble bath with a toaster, and don't pee on an electric fence. That's it, that's the extent of my knowledge.