"You guys been friends a long time, huh?" He smiles fondly at the younger man, finishing up with the spot he's been cleaning and moving on. "Yeah, it's great to have good friends like that. People you can talk to your whole life an' never get bored."

Ellis has a lot of friends like that, everyone he's ever met basically, and it's nice hearing about someone else's. Everyone needs friends they can really connect with.