Wait, am I a grownup yet?

[ursula]

If you happen to work at the grocery checkout where I am buying coffee, beer, and parsnips, and you find me so youthful that you address me as "hon" at the end of each sentence . . . don't you think you should card me? Or is there some unwritten law that no-one under the age of twenty-one will ever buy stout?

Comments

[nobu.livejournal.com]

actually, it is the parsnips. they are like salmon or oysters... no one under 21 would buy them ;)

[ursula]

Except that, of the set {salmon, oysters, parsnips, stout}, the only element that I actually purchased before I was 21 is parsnips.

[nobu.livejournal.com]

well, no accounting for taste :P
not to mention... you are hardly a NORMAL chunk of the younger population. so...meep!

[ursula]

Well, parsnips are certainly the most affordable . . . : P