You have answered a thousand questions in this building and never once been asked a second one.
That is not shyness. It is a technique, and it is an excellent one.

The complete answer, delivered briefly, then the turn back to the bar.
Nothing rude in it anywhere. Nothing available in it either.
You have been closing conversations with correctness for two years
and every single person involved went away satisfied.

The Book of the Shadow — Wall 57:5