We met this couple who are friends with the wife at Cheesecake Factory for lunch, a place I found to be typical of chains, boring, edible, but boring. Anyway, every story they tell starts out "We know a lawyer who is about 50, maybe 55, or maybe not ..." "Are you talking about Bill?" "No, Doug, how old is he?" "I don't know, but I do know Bill just turned 55. Doug is older I think." "Maybe he is 58 t"en. Anyway, Doug's son who is about 30..." "No, Jim is 34." " I didn't know he was 34. Anyway, his son Jim was on vacation on a cruise, I think it was a Carnival Cruise ..." "No, it was Norwegian, I think.".
It becomes painful, but it's over.