Should We Cancel the Meeting?

Six of us are in a meeting with the boss. It’s mostly locals, but the boss is a foreigner. And since a bomb just exploded that morning on a bus with commuters, with a number of casualties, the boss wonders whether we shouldn’t cancel the meeting.

So the boss says: “I don’t know how you guys feel about this meeting. I mean, are we okay about this meeting? Or would you rather go home?”

The following conversation develops among the six locals;
“Nah, we fine.”
“Sure we’re fine. Why, did something happen?”
“Didn’t you hear about the bus?”
”Yes, I did, but that was this morning. Did anything else happen?”
”No, just the bus bomb.”
“Oh no, then I’m fine.”
"Yes, m too."
“Yes, we’re used to it.”
“Oh, it’s normal thing.”
“Not that we don’t care about the people that died.”
“Oh no, it’s not that, we care, you see, it’s just that . . “
“Well, it’s not the first time.”
“Yes, that’s right. It’s not the first time.”
“I mean, it happens all the time.”
“And it’s quite far away too.”
“Yes, it’s not even in the neighborhood.”
“No, it’s far away. Nothing to worry about.”
“Not now at least.”
“Yes, we’ve been through this before.”
”Yes, we have. If we are going to cancel every meeting every time something explodes, we are not going to have any meetings anymore.”
Laughter erupts.

And so we continue the meeting. But at the same time, we are wondering. We are not going to end up in the same shit as the Iraqis, right?