[Since getting here he's spent most of his time distracting himself with getting to know the engineering-- and distracted he is. He's looking at the device in his hand, his glasses dangling off one ear, when he bumps into her.

The device drops to the ground, and he catches his glasses just before they fall to the same fate. He looks at her to grin apologetically, and then he sees how pissed off she looks. New strategy: babble.]

Hey, sorry, I wasn't lookin' where I was goin'. You uh-- they step on your hat or something? Cause I got a buddy, back home, gets real weird about his hat. Not that that's weird! I mean, I guess it keeps your head warm, or whatever, but I get it, is what I'm sayin'.