(scene opens in mini van, sound of something rolling around)
Gamma: (in hypersensitive) What is that noise?!
Me: (focusing on road) Check the ash tray.
Gamma: (pause) Ash tray?
Me: (opens recessed drawer, reveals car adapter)
Gamma: Oh, its a stylus for the touch screen! (picks it up and touches end to screen)
Me: No, it’s a car charger. You plug it into the cigarette lighter and it charges your electronics.
Gamma: (longer pause) Cigarette lighter?
Me: Damnit. Okay – back when everyone and their mother used to smoke, there was this thing in the car that you would push in to turn on and it would heat up and then you could touch it to the end of your cigarette to light it. Now they use them as car outlets because it’s just an electrical contact point inside.
Gamma: (side eye) Oh. Okay. That was weird.
Me: The more I have to explain it to you, the weirder my childhood gets.