Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Pass the Geritol

I have a nifty t-shirt from the University of Maryland Department of Entomology commemorating the Brood X cicadas. I picked it up at the bookstore last spring, in my annual return to College Park to see how the campus has changed, stock up on t-shirts, and eat gyros at Marathon Deli.

I happened to be wearing this shirt today when I did the grocery shopping. The cashier, a friendly young lady with shocking pink hair, asked "Do you teach at Maryland?"

I was confused at first, until she pointed to my shirt, and then she repeated "Do you teach there?"

"Ah, no, I just liked the cicadas," I said. But what I thought...with a giant sigh...is that people used to ask "Do you go to Maryland?"

I guess it's time to face the reality that it's been a good eighteen years since I could pass for eighteen.

Posted by Nic at June 19, 2005 04:37 PM