I was checking out at Trader Joe’s. I was wearing my Google t-shirt.The older check-out lady...

I was checking out at Trader Joe’s. I was wearing my Google t-shirt.

The older check-out lady said, “Wasn’t Google on the Internet yesterday?”

“… It’s always on the Internet,” I said, maybe too affronted for someone that has no personal or financial stake in Google.

“No, not Google," she said. "What was it? They had a billion dollars or something?”

“Twitter,” I said. “Twitter had their IPO yesterday.”

“That’s it,” she said. “They went on the Internet yesterday.”

I didn’t correct her again. We all knew what we meant. And at some point during this exchange, two people clarifying for each other who exactly has billions of dollars and why, I had the following thought:

I am going to be broke forever.