Question of the Day: What makes for smalltalk in Cloud city?

During the brilliant rolling storyline that is Episode IV, Luke Skywalkers friends find themselves in Cloud City after becoming separated from the rest of the Rebellion.  The Empire work this out pretty quickly and Vadar manipulates the Administrator of the City to use their presence to entrap Luke himself.

A different way of manipulating the Administrator.

"Pretty quickly" is a relatively indeterminable timeframe though in Star Wars terms, as Lukes friends seem to be in Cloud City long enough to (randomly) have a costume change, get shot, hang out in a cool apartment and notice if one of the party has gone missing. 

While Leia seems a pretty cool customer throughout the series, she even gets agitated enough about C3POs disappearance to comment about it.  One can only assume that this means they have been in the city for a period of longer than 2 hours and possibly as much or more than a day.

So why did they wait so long to talk to the City's Administrator about any issues he may have with the Empire?  Surely people on the run from the Empire that are leaders of an active Rebellion against it would have brought the subject up on arriving in Cloud City?  Rather than spending their arrival in a Mexican stand-off with the Administrator, then getting schmoozed by him, shouldn't they have said something along the lines of: "Hey, thanks for letting us land, we're on the run from the Empire - if that's an issue we'll just take off"?

The "you truly belong here amongst the clouds" line distracts every time

The only time that they raise the subject is when the Administrator is taking them out for a few drinks when it comes out in passing conversation, which really begs the question: what are people talking about on Cloud City that is so fascinating?