Milo knows the local gossip and he relates it with mindless enthusiasm. In the words of Dunstan: “The prurient, the humiliating, and the macabre were Milo’s principal areas of enthusiasm and we explored them all” (103).

Milo doesn't stop talking when he cuts Dunstan's hair. Much of what he says is pointless but he can get pretty crude:

So she promises her kid brother Bobby, who’s about twelve, a quarter if he’ll do it to her, and he does but only if he gets ten cents first, and then, jeez, when he’s finished she only gives him another nickel because she says that’s all it’s worth! Isn’t that a corker, eh? These kids today, eh? And then—”