Coworker: I'm going to Africa for four weeks.

Me: Cool! Where in Africa?

Coworker: Zambia.

Boss: Watch out for snakes.

Coworker: No, there aren't too many snakes.

Me: Scorpions! Africa is full of scorpions.

Coworker: Well... Mostly in the desert. And like in Sudan... and in Botswana... they have "Bushmen", they're these short people...

Me: What does that have to do with scorpions?

Coworker: And you should never mention their size to them.

Me: But how did we get from scorpions to short people?

Boss: Yeah, she's right.

Coworker: Seriously, they really don't like it.

Me: It's not the scorpions that get you, it's the short people.

Coworker: Precisely.