“Oh, yeah. I’m the life of the party. You know what, why don’t we talk about something else besides my stellar social skills? Let’s do that, yeah? Like, okay, okay, how was work?”
“This is work. I’m still at work. We worked on a tourism campaign for Quebec, so it was a lot of research today.”
Then it should be simple for you to remember how work was,” he reasoned. “See? So, a tourism campaign for Quebec, huh? Research. All interesting things. By the way, this is me trying my best to be engaged in the conversation. Is it working?”