A variant of “I don’t work well under pressure” or “Well I can’t work with you standing there watching me.” He’s a smooth criminal, just don’t look at him.
… vis-a-vis working on something jailworthy while under a surveillance camera …
Yeah. New inmate explaining to his cellmate (whose bunk has a lot of time-marking tick marks). Normally he would get away with (his usual crime), but this time there was a surveillance camera and that’s why he’s in jail.
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A variant of “I don’t work well under pressure” or “Well I can’t work with you standing there watching me.” He’s a smooth criminal, just don’t look at him.
… vis-a-vis working on something jailworthy while under a surveillance camera …
Yeah. New inmate explaining to his cellmate (whose bunk has a lot of time-marking tick marks). Normally he would get away with (his usual crime), but this time there was a surveillance camera and that’s why he’s in jail.