"I would have to disappoint them," Ashley said. "I have no womenfolk at all. And not much food at home. Only art, and computers!"
Beat.
"Explaining that to a bunch of Huns and Vandals, so to speak, would be a bit difficult. But really, when everything went pear-shaped in Argentina, people didn't turn into Huns and Vandals; they started bartering food ad skills instead and ended up establishing an illegal alternative non-convertible grass-roots currency of coupons."