Of course Troy would find amusement in it. Clara was pretty certain that John did as well. Traitors, the both of them. Or not really, they just got to watch the fall out which was undoubtedly amusing. Clara was sure it would be for her as well were she not the one who would be in the middle of it.
"You're enjoying this too much you know. Besides, you didn't have to listen to him go on and on about how I didn't need to take this job, I had the same one back home, the weather here is hot and miserable and how I'm going to absolutely hate it."
Or Troy could talk about her dad meeting her students and that more or less made Clara sit upright in abject terror.
"Don't even joke about that! Oh god, he would get bored of retirement and decide to do something like.. be a caretaker at the school or something." She could picture it and she really wished she couldn't. She wished it were just some farfetched idea but no. Her dad was definitely the type who would get bored and do something like that. Always talking about how he liked kids better because they were honest and then... And then Troy suggesting they convince him to be a teacher!? Was he trying to give her a heart attack!?