Young and Sassy

Remember when you were twenty?
Just think back.
From what I can remember I was pretty ridiculous. Actually, I was extremely ridiculous...
And what got me reminiscing today was when two girls (about twenty or twenty-one) walked into the restaurant and sat down. I walked up to them with two glasses of water and said, "Can I get you something to drink besides water?"
One looks up at me with her non-prescripted eyeglasses and says to me very quickly (while chewing gum furiously), 'Yeah. I'll have an espresso.'
I said, "Okayyyyy - " while thinking to myself, 'What twenty year old North American girl drinks a single espresso?'
"Er, ah," she cuts in. *chew chew* "I mean like - "
Her friend cuts in with a very quick, "They have regular coffee here, it's good." She looks at me and says, "Your coffee's good, right?"
She'd never been to the place before.
I give a small smile and said, "Yes - two coffees, then?"
Simultaneously, while chewing gum and twirling hair and pulling out their art books with their fancy pencil crayons, they answered yes. And asked for the coffee black, which makes me assume that they think that's the way it's supposed to be sipped. Sophistication.
And after ten minutes with their coffee, I walk by and one says, "Ummm, do you have soy milk for the coffee?"
The think about being twenty, you're insecure as hell - unless you're really lucky and have these amazing parents that have somehow bred a wonder child who's got their shit together for real. When met with a somewhat intimidating situation you either show how stupid and inferior you feel, or you fake it by assuming confidence, assertiveness, snobbishness (any/or). I don't really get the snobby part, 'cause no one gets ahead by being a dick, but whatever. I guess there's something glamourous about thinking one is better than another.
It's funny, because while they're thinking that they're assuming their cool positions well, I'm telling my boss about them in the back and we're laughing about it.
Which made me think about how many times people had probably been laughing at me.
Which really, is okay, because I was a stupid idiot. But in my defense, because I will always think I'm more mature than everyone else my age, I'd like to think I was a nice and respectful stupid idiot.
Anyway, as my serving their table went on, the girls relaxed and it was an overall pleasant experience. They're probably cool kids.

But their drawings were shit.