dozen
gja "How many?" she asked.
"Oh...I'll try a dozen please."
"What?" She asked.

A quantum, I assume now, she'd never encountered.

My turn of phrase or her ignorance I wondered.
Hackles up I slunk away.
My pride willing me to believe I could not be so far removed from her world as to be incapable of a simple mercantile transaction.
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