But that's okay, because they know what it means when one of their friend's toys starts doing that - it means they're free to start slipping their own suggestions into the conversation, too.

He's right, of course, although now my eyes are swaying back and forth and I'm defocusing a little whenever I'm talking to any of his friends.

That I'd be too shy to do anything about it, of course, but the thought will just keep slipping back all the same.

I mean he also might just have been a massive stoner