[There's a snort.]

Always people ready to attribute stuff like that to what you say, no matter your intentions.

[His tone is vaguely amused, and he sounds as though he's speaking from experience. And that's the second person who started to use something besides months to describe time. Derek's curious now, but there's more important things at hand.]

Three months and no bad weather? Probably cuts down the chances of this being a regular storm.

Yeah, I'm new.