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.
081030
what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from