Still obvious after all these years

We were waiting around. Another waiter: “You’re not from around here, are you?”

We’ve lived here for thirty-odd years, but no, not originally.

“I could tell. From __________?”

He was asking what town we live in. And yes, he had that right too.

“University?”

Is it that obvious? Well, yes.

Years ago, I took my kids to meet David Newell/Mr. McFeely at our nearby PBS station. “So you teach at the university?” he asked me. I, an academic? Was it that obvious? Well, yes.

[Re: “__________”: I keep some nouns off OCA. Re: “Well, yes”: but not at an R1 school.]