Childhood friends to business partners? That's a little bit adorable, at least to Ned, who had never had any business partner's, and who hasn't seen his best childhood friend in 20 years. There's something to that continuity, that stability and length of association, that he envies intensely.

"So why's he mad now?" Ned asks. There's probably something unethical about prying into Meyer's social life when he's so clearly wasted, but Ned can't help but be curious. Besides, it gives him something to do, other than sit here while Meyer stares at the flowers with a dopey kind of wonder.