"Sounds frustrating... Hey, um. You said you were an instructor, right? They got any practice rooms where you work? 'Cause a lot of schools have a music room, or at least that's how things worked back in Japan." He really didn't know much about what level Snake taught at, but Snake didn't seem the sort to teach elementary schoolers...

Hmm. What other stuff did one talk about to get acquainted. "My family pretty much all lives in Osaka. I got a bunch of relatives, but I'm an only child."

If that was not immediately clear.