"Why are you pushing your shrimp to the side of your plate?" Stephanie asks, looking at my plate.

"I'm stockpiling them as a reward for eating the rest of the dinner.  Like a 32K memory cache on a hard drive."

A small sneer.  "You know what is the most middle class trait of all, Tyler?  The ability to postpone plea-zhure."
 
 
 
 

-Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet