Albert

At my friends house, she introduced me to her 13 year old brother. Chatty I was, at his age, but couldn’t carry or cultivate a conversation with an adult. This young man, did. With me.

He asked me a few, starting about my height and how he could grow tall. Eventually I went on telling him things that I knew that might be of interest to him. As we doodled around a few topics, he cuts me by asking ‘are you Einstein?’

A question that took me and my friend back, despite both of us being the kind of people who (seem) to always have something to say.

I managed, ‘no. He is short and ugly.’

There’s not a need to document here, my friends’ soft retort to my ‘canny’ response.