Quite right. A person can't accomplish much without a clean carpet underneath him, I always say.

[ What, cleaning is a day to day thing right? Or an ...hour to hour thing. Depending on the stresses of the day. Meanwhile an awkward, tongue-tied silence has taken over the communicative frequency between them, broken eventually by a small hem type sound. ]

Well. [ Go on Hal, you can say it. ] I suppose thanks are in order then?

[ ...A for effort? ]