So today as I’m coming back from lunch an older couple stopped me to ask a question or two about printers. After we land on what they wanted, the husband says, “So we need one each.” I look at them both and say “… so… two?” He stairs down his glasses at me saying, “You were never in the military, son?”
You have no idea how tempted I was to say “Oh no, sir. See, I’m 24, and there hasn’t been a draft for any unbelievably moronic wars, so I never had a chance to learn military lingo that makes you sound mentally retarded to the rest of world.” One each? If there’s two of you, one each makes it sound like EACH OF YOU NEED ONE. That or he meant Ichi, as in the the Japanese word for one (which is often pronounced as simply ‘ich’), but that’s just as moronic because he just said one twice in a row. I didn’t know you could stutter in two different languages at once.
It’s not my fault that you talk in a manner only a select group of people can/will understand. So yeah, old people suck. Just an FYI.
