• $S: "Can we get Y units of gift packaging for HKD X each?"
  • Me: Last I heard from $J, yes [$J sits 1 table over]
  • $S: Can you check with $J?
  • Me: Why don't we just ask $J now?
  • $S: Because $J is busy…anyway, can you check?

All that oxygen when it would have sufficed to send a message on our chat.

But one teaches by example, so I started a group chat between the 3 of us and sent the message.