Typo Negative

I went to a debate today between Karl Rove and Howard Dean focused on health care reform. At one point Rove made a comment deriding the fact that if we had a public plan/insurance plan in general, then you would be subsidizing other people's plans. Other people had been shouting a lot during the debate, so I figured whatever, so could I! Of course, the whole point of an insurance plan is that you do subsidize other people's costs, so I said, "That's the point of insurance!" It wasn't too loud and it didn't disrupt his speaking.

The woman in front of me, who was clearly on the other side of the political spectrum, turned around and snarkily asked, "How old are you?" As if a 21-year-old can't have informed opinions on politics, or understand how insurance works, even though my major is the mathematics of insurance. I could have said 21, but that would have been letting her win, and I wasn't quick enough to think of the correct response, which was "Old enough to know how insurance works," so instead I just asked back snarkily, "How old are you?" She said, "Forty-seven," and I said, "Good. Great. Good for you." And that was that.

I wish I were quicker with things like this.

Peace out.