An older woman at work who is used to lording her age and supposed greater experience over everyone gets flustered when she says things around me and to me like, “You’ve probably never heard of it – it was before you were born.”
And I say things like, “No, I’ve actually seen The Graduate twice. Did you know that Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft who played ‘the older woman’ actually only differed a few years in age?”
Pretty much she has learned to never do this around me anymore, as much as she obviously enjoys doing it.
But she slipped up and did it to me with the movie Brian’s Song. She said something about the “movie about the football player from the ‘60s who died. It was way before your time; I’m sure you’ve never heard of it.”
I said, “Oh you mean Brian’s Song? Brian Piccolo? Yeah, I saw that when I was 10 or 11.”
The funny thing is she didn’t even know about the 2001 remake.
I may be bad at many things, but in trivia no matter what era it is from few people can hang. I don’t really enjoy lording knowledge over people, but she is both so arrogant and dismissive that I enjoy flustering her when I can. Which I do pretty much every time she insists on demonstrating her superiority supposedly granted by being older than everyone else.