The Maxx

Dave:
Dr. Pender? You in here?

Pender:
Yeah, Dave. Just thought I'd work a little late tonight.

Dave:
Kinda dark to be grading papers, isn't it?

Pender:
Oh...right. Go ahead and turn on the light. I was just thinking.

Dave:
'Bout what?

Pender:
About life. I never planned to teach at a community college--I just wound up doing it. Just makes ya think. Don't you ever regret the road your life has taken?

Dave:
I didn't plan on being a janitor, either, but I don't beat myself up about it. Hey doc, what'd you always want to be when you were a kid?

Pender:
Oh, I dunno. Maybe something exotic--a magician. Maybe an Indian. I always hated cowboys.

Dave:
Me too. Maybe you already are a magician, but you just don't know it. Heh heh. Listen, doc, when I was a little boy, and the girl nest door moved away, I thought my whole life had ended.

Pender:
And now that you're older, you see otherwise.

Dave:
I've told you this already, huh?

Pender:
Yeah, but tell me again...

Dave:
Hey, where'd that snow globe on your desk come from?

Pender:
I don't know. It wasn't there a minute ago...