Oh, yay! More of this series! Absolutely loving it still. This was brilliant:

Left alone, the Doctor sat down on bench to read the scavenged newspaper. Then he read it again, this time with red pen in hand to mark all the grammar errors, punctuation problems, and primitive scientific misconceptions.

And the whole Doctor/Ricky misunderstanding/rant/lecture was hilarious. Perfect, too. Loved it.

Now that you're posting on livejournal, by the way, you should post this on time_and_chips.