Here's My Card

Tonight I was with Stephanie at Yogurtland (aka my favorite dessert place ever) playing Phase 10 when this kid comes up to us and says, "Are you by any chance playing Uno?"

"No, this is a game called Phase 10." We reply. When he asks, what's that? we try explaining the complicated-ness of him, half trying to convince him that we don't want him to join in in the middle of our game.

"Oh, that seems really intense," he says. "How about I give you my card so that we can schedule a Phase 10 play/learning date?"

Um, you're like 16...

But, we say, OK. He goes back to his table with his friends and a minute later comes back with two cards with his twitter account and e-mail address and in a Sharpie marker he has written his name and phone number quite sloppily. "I'm going to have my website up soon," he assures us.

"Are you still in high school?" I ask him.

"Yeah."

"You know that we're not, right?" I say.

"Oohh most of my friends are in college, I usually hang with the older crowd." The Older Crowd? Have we already aged that much? That we're the "OLDER" crowd?

"But, we've already graduated from college," Stephanie says. To which he says, "Oh how cool. I'm actually being interviewed tomorrow for the Art Institute early decision."

...Good for you, young man. Good for you.

"I'm super excited," he explains. Then he bids us farewell. While I don't like that he calls us the older crowd, what moxie! He can really succeed in life if he is aggressive like that. I'm serious.

I'm full from yogurt.