And a new thing I've noticed, at the convenience store, or the liquor store, picking up cigarettes or vodka, clerks that complete the entire transaction without letting go of their phone or speaking to you, you speak, tell them what you want, they get it, ring it up, take your money and make change, all while gibbering in a foreign language to the invisible, irrelevant other. I catch the eye of another older gentleman, he's thinking the same thing:
"Unbelieveable, isn't it?" he tells me. I only nod, I don't want to interrupt the clerk...