Or openly discusses his secret with Lois in crowded rooms! That one always kills me. Course, it's the old TV convention, isn't it, that no one in a crowded room can eavesdrop on important conversations.
In a similar vein, I always love in the Stargate episode, Lockdown, when Carter wants to privately discuss the fact that the patient in the bed adjoining Daniel's is dying she draws the curtain between the beds! As though that's going to stop their conversation travelling to the poor soul! They don't even lower their voices.
Apparently sound doesn't travel the same way in TV land as it does in reality.
LabRat