There's a lot you can do without any guns. I just like having options.

[It's what works best for him. He doesn't tend to plan; Stan and Dipper are the planners. Ford tends more toward just having a basic goal and a lot of room for improvisation. Like, for instance, his plan for today was to gather basic information and maybe get some leads on a source of income that doesn't boil down to 'hold hands'. Instead he's shoving all that aside to lean in and take a closer look at that scar. Huh. Neat.]

Now that's something. Did you lose the old one or just decide you liked the look of this one better?

[He doesn't quite realize that maybe it's odd to go asking after this kind of info before even knowing someone's name; thirty years bouncing around radically different worlds means his understanding of basic social norms is very limited. It's all relative, after all, after a certain point there's no real reason to bother.]