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I wrote this a bunch of times because I kept explaining too much. I cut down the words over & over until I had the absolute minimum required, as far as I could tell. Carol isn’t stupid, but she’s also not a wordy as he is. I have to be careful when I write Thomas because he essentially uses my voice & it makes me let my guard down & start making everyone on the page wordy too. Although you need to let that happen a little because any group of friends will begin to resonate with each other, but you need to walk the line carefully. When I was little my mother & father had very distinct “voices” linguistically. He is from Iowa, his mother was a teacher, so he spoke very precisely. My mother spoke with a very casual Kansas accent. Over time our family ended up with a very precise version of a kansas accent as the two styles melded. We’ve always leaned toward the precise though, probably because my father is a very strong willed, dominant, person so his style teneded to win out.
Amusingly however, my mother still has a few Kansan things in her dialect that have never quite been scrubbed away, like saying warsh instead of wash. It’s not even all the time. It’s more noticable after she’s been around her parents for a few days because they still maintain the more casual dialect. All that said, my maternal gandparents do speak with a much more clear version of a kansas accent then what you might find further south, or in the little rural towns on the edges of civilization. It’s not like they were hillbillies or something. They used to sad pop instead of soda, but over time soda made a lot of headway. So now at a gathering your chances of being handed a soda are about 70 30 over getting handed a pop.