You know what I find interesting?

When I was only five my father decided to teach me how to paint life studies.

That’s not at all what I was going to say, but really?

It didn’t take. I was only five.

Uhm, all right.

Later, I discovered I liked salami, sliced thin.

Good for you. No, what I think is interesting…

Some types of cheese taste like licking the shell of a turtle.

What?

But only some.

How would you even know that? What are you? Rain Dan?

Three things. Rain Dan is priceless, in the third place, I’m messing with you, in the second place because you keep starting conversations threatening to interest me in the first place!

That annoys you?

Sven, it annoys everyone. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, and I didn’t mean to do it out of the blue but I couldn’t take it.

I didn’t…

It’s just… hit me. What was it you were going to find so interesting, hoping I would be interested as well?

Some folks are trying to figure out to what extent a new theory of quantum gravity will reproduce general relativity.

And you thought I would find that interesting?

Well, maybe?

I get it, we all have our thing and sometimes they don’t cross, but man, yours are out there.

So I should not talk about my passions?

No! Talk about them! But don’t lay claim to try and trick us into being interested! We’re your friends. We’ll listen to you, probably learn something along the way, but you don’t need to dress it up and sell it to us.

Ahh. I begin to see.

Good. Sorry I lost it.

It’s all right, I didn’t know it was that annoying.

Eh, whatever.

Turtle shells taste like cheese?

Some types of cheese taste like licking the shell of a turtle.

And you were just making that up.

As far as you know. But perhaps not. Perhaps not.

Someone has to know.

How many licks it takes to get to the center of a turtle?

Well, at least someone has categorized the flavor, I’m sure.

If they did they claimed it tastes like chicken. Lazy people abound, man.

I wish you weren’t probably right about that. But you probably are.

This is my burden in life, Sven.

Being right?

Being probable.

I’m not sure how to even respond to that.

No one ever does.

So it was probable I would be in the same boat.

You see the problem.

Sadly, yes.

Another round?

At least.