They manage to get the thing to its destination and set it down. If Shen hears the pun he disregards it. Instead, he looks thoughtful.

"I woke up in that laboratory surrounded almost entirely by unfamiliar things and went on into the city still surrounded by unfamiliar things," he muses. "If I allowed all of the things I didn't understand to bother me, I'd throw everything but the furniture out of my home and never leave it. I wouldn't last very long if I did that."