Say something then!

We visited the last day of the Hay Literary festival. What a beautiful day! This chap kept his cool doing his android thing. He let me shake his hand which was clammy and tending to shed blue paint. It's surprising how uncomfortable it gets when you speak and get no reaction apart from the odd robotic arm movement. As I said to him, "you're very good but I feel like I'm just talking to a machine." I should have told him a joke. Perhaps that would've phased him - maybe a blue one.