An Actual Conversation

This conversation took place this morning on my way up the elevator at work. It's just enough floors (7) that people try to make awkward conversation.

Me: Minding my own business, I smile and say hello when the usual delivery guy gets in on the 2nd floor. "Hello, how are you?"

Guy: "I'd be a lot better if Britney would disappear and they'd get Anna Nicole's body in the ground already. I'm gettin' a little tired of hearing about it constantly...it's become like a poison."

Me: I ponder a moment, evaluating the irony. "Do you find it at all ironic that you just brought it up and poisoned me with the very thing that you find so toxic?"

Guy: "Yeah, sorry..."

Me: "Ok then, I'll see you tomorrow...hang in there." Smile.