“If you asked us when something happened, we might tell you it was in the year when all the buffalo froze. Then you’d get mad and ask us, when was that? So maybe we’d tell you it was the year the stars fell. That’s how we kept track of years. “But that wouldn’t be a good enough answer for you. You would want to know what year it was by a number. As if it made any difference to know a number of a year. You got mad when we couldn’t give you a day with a number on it and said we didn’t remember.
