She learned things in the eighties that younger women haven't discovered yet — the particular patience of someone who knows exactly what she's doing and refuses to rush it.

Hubby watches from the corner, jaw tight, while she turns that measured attention entirely toward you, her confidence filling the room like something expensive and unhurried.

Your preferences get quietly dismantled. Every assumption you walked in with dissolves the moment she decides you're worth her time — and she's already decided.