Yesterday at the airport, I was sitting there zoning out as I usually do after a long day of meetings when a kid (I use the word "kid" to describe anyone younger than myself), a teenager to be specific, stopped in front of me and said, "Hey, are those, like, blueprints you have there?"

"Yep," I replied.

"So are you, like, an engineer or something?"

At this I straightened up. "Yes, in fact, I am."

"Whoa."

That made my day.