An Unlikely Start to a Friendship: Are We Them?
Serendipity found us while we were on vacation.
Sitting at the Tap & Still, a restaurant bar on St. John, after a full day at the beach two days ago, my husband and I were having an early dinner. The place was not crowded but starting to fill up. A group of four couples arrived while we were eating — probably all in their 70s — acting kind of loud and goofy. They were all very friendly with each other and touchy-feely so it was hard to tell whom each person belonged to.
Another couple had arrived that we did not take notice of at first. Then, the guy — someone about our age — tapped my husband on the shoulder and said, “Hey, I was just wondering…Are We Them?” We laughed but what he meant was, are we that old? In fact, we were 10–15 years younger than this group.
We had just finished eating and a conversation started up between the similarly aged couple and us. It was the usual —
Them: “Where are you from?”
Us: “Wisconsin”
Them: “Cincinnati”
Us: “Oh, we grew up in New York! The Buffalo area.”
Them: “Sorry about the Bills.”
Us: “Sorry about the Bengals.”
