A man uses a telescope on a wall. another man walks in to see him.
Using a telescope on a wall is useless since you are just seeing an upclose of the wall.
Why is he using a telescope on a wall?
Let me know when the paint is dry.
scene: office description: A man uses a telescope on a wall. another man walks in to see him. uncanny: Using a telescope on a wall is useless since you are just seeing an upclose of the wall. entities: Telescope, Management. caption: Let me know when the paint is dry.
A play on the phrase "watching paint dry" --- usually, that idiom means a very boring activity. But here, the activity is literally watching paint dry, here, through a telescope. It's odd because it appears this is an office, and the employee's job is to watch paint dry while his boss oversees him.