"Thank you," she said with a small smirk. "But its not so much smarts as following the pattern. There's been an outbreak of mass arrivals like that," she sighed. "You wake up in a new place. All your things are here and you have problems finding where whatever brought you here put everything? I tell you it took me two hours to find my laptop. Whatever force dropped me here had put it under my bed," she sighed. "For a computer junkie? That's not the best place."
She nodded, listening to his comment. "Well maybe you'd be interested in going into something like government work? Or a social service type job?" She didn't really know anything about this young man (he couldn't have been much younger than her, he actually looked a year or two younger... if not her age) and yet she was suggesting things, despite that Barbara couldn't help but laugh when he said that.
"Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet the checks will not come back?" She poked back verbally? "So now we know two things. Whoever brought us here - one - doesn't want us to leave and - two - is not above taking our money. Oh this is going to be interesting isn't it?" she was trying to be funny, after what had happened today? They could all use a laugh.