He'll feel indignant later. Right now, he's keeping the spill confined to the table and not dripping onto him. And fast-talking the waitress that comes to help him into letting him doodle in the spill a while until it's properly dried. And creating another masterwork of ephemeral art which is quite a good portrait if he does say so himself, even if the waitress whose portrait he's done doesn't quite see it that way.

Later is when he patently refuses to make mac and cheese on a stick.