George then wonders if they have had that conversation before.

"Maybe you should ask him yourself, I've already had that conversation once."

"You remember, I was kind of worried after we had that conversation last week?"

"Once we had that conversation, I felt really good about everything that went on between me and him."

Jim's not the kind of guy who wants that deep conversation.

And does all that desultory conversation mean more than it says?

For the rest of his life he remembered that cramped conversation.

Yeah you know that nice little conversation we were having on the bus.

He remembered that conversation with his old man far too clearly.

Would the world have come to an end if you hadn't held that public conversation with yourself?