Fair 'nough. Besides, it's the drinks that don't taste like alcohol that are the dangerous ones.

[His sweeping slows enough that he chooses to lean on the broom, eyeballing the bartender.]

All these guys used to be people. Or are people, somewhere out there, who got disconnected from these robot bodies. But Thomas here, something happened to get him caught up in all this, and now some part of his consciousness is stuck, not like a degrading bit of machinery but like...someone who got lobotomized, something like that.

As a theory.