Joker got asked a lot about Commander Shepard. People wanted to know what the man was like, what it was like playing a part in saving the galaxy, all of that.
Joker would tell people things they expected to hear - that Commander Shepard was a great man, brave, smart, stubborn, funny. He would also tell people that Commander Shepard had a problem with stairs.
He was telling some new recruit about it now.
"Stairs?" The guy, Corporal Moretz, asked.
"Yeah, on the Normandy he never watched where he was going," Joker said. "He was always too busy reading datapads, catching up on reports, stuff like that, so he had a tendency to trip down the stairs."
Moretz just gave Joker a look of disbelief.
"No joke," Joker said. "Alenko once threatened to take Shepard's datapads away."
"But I've seen vids of Shepard. He never looked clumsy," Moretz said.
"He was never trying to read and walk in those vids," Joker said with a shrug.
"I don't know," Moretz said shaking his head.
Suddenly there was a crash a few feet away.
Joker heard a familiar voice apologizing before the owner of the voice sat down in the empty seat beside Joker.
"Stairs get ya again?" Joker asked.
"Yeah," Trick Shepard said with a sheepish grin. "They came out of nowhere."
Joker looked at Moretz as if to say "see, told ya."