He couldn't help but smile back. The drink was nice, really really nice drink, yeah. And he was going to have an apartment, Maria was going to be in the apartment with him, and Maryanne was offering to get him strange science gadgets, and that was just great, it really was.
But, ingrained habits from the previous station still needed to be followed, and he was signing "I don't have much to trade," before he even realized what he was doing.