You're really that curious? [Leaning back in his stool a bit, stll obviously good with his balance.]
...you ever gave a group of people around -- friends or coworkers -- that--
Hang on.
[Same question, different angle.] I quit a place. A job. [Technically true.] And my friends who came here were still around, and they still kind of want to be involved in my life, but they don't want to tell me all to much about what they've been up to.
Now it's starting to tick me off, since some of 'em have been doing things -- basically behind my back -- that I don't approve of. [Takes a drink, punctuating it with a sigh.] We all suck at keeping secrets.