Frivolous Friday dialogue

Scene I. On the train.

C: G'morning, Jay, how are you doing?

J: (brief pause) About like you look.

C: ...?

Scene II. A few hours later. A meeting.

P: (to M.): Tell Ch_____ he did a great job.

J: Actually, he works for N_____.

M: But I hired him!

C: Whoa -- have I just entered a time-warp? Is it May already? (Reviews are supposed to be written in May.)

P: Gotta go... (exits)

M: C_____, this affinity thing you're working on -- how much is that going to reduce build-times?

J: Was it 30% or 50% you told me?

C: (has a laughing fit; recovers). That would be "No."

The rest of the conversation was a lot less interesting from a "silliness" point of view. BTW, the organizational structure is like this:

P
|
+--J
|  |
|  +--M
|  |  +--(engineers)
|  |
|  +--C
|  |
|  +--(other managers, engineers)
|
+--N
|  |
|  +--(engineers)
|
+--(other managers)