Take advantage of your seniority; maybe there's a discount for coffee.

[An earnest attempt at a joke? Possibly, but it's too earnest; the man's expressions and inflections remain flat and constant; there's no biting of an inner cheek to rein back a smirk, no sign of mischief or amusement in the dark eyes.]

So... colonial-era America is in your history books, too. How far back?