Soon after, a woman speaking to another said her teeth hurt whenever she received email. The other woman nodded. At lunch a woman in her 20s and a man in his 30s argued over a new product being brought to market next month. She cocked her head and opened her eyes wide. He was avid.
Kids love bananas and calculators.
But adults like them too. They make them so they can store phone numbers. I listened to a conversation in which one person told a complex joke about an Englishman, a Hindu, and the 1943 Colossus Computer, all on a large airplane that was about to crash. At the end of the joke it was revealed that everyone was actually inside a flight simulator, but when they left the flight simulator they were inside another flight simulator. The Hindu said something about colonialism and the computer mentioned an apple soaked in cyanide, and the British man took the blame for both, before the computer and the Hindu left him and departed from that simulator for parts unknown.