Here’s another conversation I had last night:

Friend #1:  “Jack Kerouac used a typewriter.  You know those old typewriters, right?  You had had to put the paper in, you rolled it through.”

Me: “Yes.  I know typewriters.  I owned a typewriter when I was a kid.  I took a typing course in high school.”

Friend #2:  [Skeptical pause] “Eric … how old are you?”