Born Yesterday
(Several teenage patrons are reading the ‘What does your birthday mean?’ keychains.)
Teenager #1: “Mine’s September 11th. Wasn’t that, like, a bad day in history or something?”
Me: “How old are you guys?”
All Teens: “Thirteen!”
(I do quick mental math. I realize they were only six when the twin towers fell.)
Me: “Yes. It was a very bad day. Members of an extremist group hijacked some planes and–”
(While reading a keychain from the day the Berlin Wall fell, the second teenager interrupts me.)
Teenager #2: “Hey! What does ‘co-MUNE-ism’ mean?”
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