Absurdity

"I'm not gonna talk about my cat, because I refuse to cry at work...,"

"No, yeah, cool cool cool, I totally get it," she says, waving her hand and shaking her head. "So why did the chicken cross the road?"

"Why?"

"Scott, I don't know either," she says, cracking herself up as she says it, which makes me smile my first genuine smile of the day.