Well
I went to a local establishment to print out a few photos (I have a b/w laser printer which is a beast, but not for photos).
The clerk was in her twenties, I guess. She was casually disinterested.
She started explaining the procedure to me, and I asked her a few questions. After one of her responses, which was particularly vague, I said, "You sound dubious."
She said, "I don't know what that means."
Up until this point in my life, I never considered it possible that someone wouldn't know the meaning of "dubious."
Not only did she not know what dubious meant, she seemed positively offended that I'd throw a word around she wasn't familiar with.
This country, man. What have we become?
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