"Yeah." Max was sort of glad that she hadn't immediately gone in to call her Maxine. A lot of people did that and she hated it. "Nice to meet you."
Okay, pleasantries dispensed with. She was kind of bad at that anyway.
"What are you making?" she asked instead, because even though she was bored she wasn't going to waste an opportunity to hear the sound of her own voice for a good long while. Probably about a week.