PAYING FOR MY NEW COMPUTER, I noticed that the gal behind the counter was wearing her watch on her right wrist. She was in her early twenties, I would guess. "Are you a southpaw?" I inquired. "What?" she replied, a look of incomprehension on her face. "A southpaw?" I repeated. "Am I from the south?" she asked, incredulous. "No, no," I said, realizing that she had no idea what I was talking about. "Southpaw means left-handed." I got a dumb stare, followed by a forced smile. She had never heard the word. A few minutes earlier, in conversation with the computer-knowledgeable salesman, I had gotten the feeling that he and I were speaking different languages. "Gigabytes?" But now, at the counter, it was strictly the age difference that had caused us to be speaking different languages. We were two people from different times. I had caused her to feel uncomfortable and me to feel my age. My wife, herself a southpaw, smirked through the whole encounter. "When are you going to learn?" was her reaction on the way out of the store.
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