A man in a hot air balloon realized that he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted,
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The woman below replied,"You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an engineer," said the balloonist.

"I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?"

"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."

The woman below responded, "You must be in Management."

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."

I love it. Had a great laugh.

Technically, they probably couldn't be having that conversation. If he's 30 ft up they would have to speak loudly already, but the baloon burner would have to be going fairly consistently because he wouldn't be high enough to catch an air current to carry him. However, given the presented latitude he would be in the North, and the colder air would be more dense, so maybe the baloon would not have to be heated as much once it got to a steady-state takeoff temperature, so they could hear each other.

But, like we learned once already, if it's light out he would be going faster due to the ionic excitation of the air molecules from the suns photonic planarization.

So it totally makes sense.