paying for the resin, not the table
Which he had to make a fucking Financial Amend to have fixed
Context
The Ninth Step rendered as petty logistics: Gately owing a "Financial Amend" for a cracked institutional table, spared the full cost only because a semi-Crocodile refinisher fixed it for the price of a tube of fake-wood-resin. The doctrine of making amends scaled down to a repaired table and a grudging expense — the Program's abstractions cashed out in furniture.