*pause*

*smerk*

*snicker*

"Watch pocket? Is that what you call that? I never heard it called that."

"What do you call it?"

"That's my 'coin pocket'"



That ^^^ is a conversation I had with my barber while sitting in his chair last week. (YES! I have a barber! )

My regular barber is around 40 with a kid in high school and one in grade school. He's a serious amateur photographer with the basement studio that is going into digital kicking and screaming all the way. Part of my time in his chair each month involves why he should be shooting pixels, not chemical strips and why he doesn't like computers. LOL The cell phone topic came up and how he keeps his in his car 'for emergencies' and only brings it in each Friday to charge it up. During the conversation, the term "watch pocket" came out and we chuckled about who of the guys setting along the mirror, waiting their turn in the four chair shop, knew they had a "watch pocket" in their pants. ROFL

When I was through, I walked over to a younger (late teen, early 20's) guy and asked if he had a watch pocket in his pants. The startled, confused look said it all when he asked if I meant "the little pocket' as the retired gentleman next to him smiled at me and chuckled.

I turned to my Barber and announced "I have the first one right" and went down the line with "he does, he doesn't, he doesn't, he does...." I walked out the door listening to anybody over 50 laughing and everybody talking loudly to the guy on either side of him.



What common words, terms, names of things are different for you than someone else, whether due to age gap, style change, regional reference or whatever. Is the sill cock on your house a 'faucet' or 'spicket'?

(mine's a 'faucet')

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