"I can handle it okay," he protests, but only mildly. "I been doing it a long time."

A pause, and a little sigh.

"But yeah, I guess that's another thing different between here and home, huh. There's a lot of people and people who aren't regular people, too. Maybe I just gotta get used to it. -- I don't mean you're not a regular people, sir!" he adds hastily. "I meant that more like the goddesses and ghosts and everything."

Since John included himself in the lots of stuff going on upstairs category.