I have attracted a lonely old contractor. He came to ask a question about room access and then spent the next 50 minutes telling me his life story -- what jobs he's worked and in what locales, which of his grandsons are bums and which ones are hard workers, how his hometown has been overtaken by Mexicans...finally, a co-worker had to ask me a question and lurked outside my office so I had an excuse to help her and get him out. Nice guy. Except for the mild prejudice and deafness.