Last night a neighbour was visiting.
She told us that he son was traveling. He was in Turkey.
I asked here where.
She said ‘Istanbul’
I replied with ‘not Constantinople?’
She said, ‘No, Istanbul,’
Me: ‘Not Constantinople?’
By now, she didn’t get what I was doing.
Laura did.
She was sitting in the next room, mouth gaping, eyes wide, vigorously nodding encouragement.
I continued: “Even old New York was once New Amsterdam”
Still clueless, she replied: “Really”
Me: “Why they changed it, I can’t say”
The next part blew me away. Completely without prompting and utterly unaware, she finished the lyric: “I guess people like it better that way.”
Laura, listening from the other room was barely keeping quite. Her fist pumps and head nodding had energy rivaling that at an AC/DC concert.
I’m not sure what psychographic line I was crossing - Gen x vs boomer? Maybe weirdo theatre geek vs non weirdo theatre geek? I dunno. Together we had a conversation where my side of the conversation was prewritten by ‘They Might…
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