Lollygagging is a great US word that I haven’t come across before – now filed away for future use.
Very vivid, engaging little scene and the limitation on sentence structure isn’t really very noticeable to the reader – so well done for constructing something that still flows quite naturally despite the constraints. Your X sentence is unusual and interesting (through it tripped me up a couple of times on the first read).
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