The narrator tells the teacher that he's going to go to a writers' seminar at the school. The teacher tells the narrator that the school allows him to participate as a "monitor" , which means that he can do whatever he wants as long as he does it well. The narrator says that if he keeps wasting his time on this, he'll be "laged behind" and "let me down" . He says that he would never allow the narrator to be a writer, because he doesn't have the "courage" to take action for his own work. He also says that the narrator's story is "exaggerated" and that he hasn't been to the "chaotic bars" in the story. He asks the teacher to step into the bar and see what the heck is going on. He's worried about the guy who just stepped in, but the narrator reassures him that it's not a big deal.