I was on a bus tour in Australia. Most of the tourists were kids in their early ’20s but there were some around my age (turn of the 30’s) one of them seemed to feel the need to mock everything about me. When she found out I did salsa, she was most disparaging.

“Salsa, I had a go at that. I thought it was a bit sad. Full of middle-aged people who were left on the shelf, whereas I’m -”

“- in denial?” I cut in.

She didn’t like that one bit. I don’t know if I imagined it, but it seemed she mocked me less often, but more bitterly after that.