conversation overheard between my 12-year-old cousin and his friend

immediately following a sleepover during which they stayed up later than I did; you know you're getting old when...

(referring to some game or other) "Hey, let's ask Eve to play."

"No way, are you kidding?"

"Why?"

"She'd slaughter us. She's, like, crazy smart."

"Man. She seems totally normal."

"No, no, I know. But, okay, for Christmas we gave her this puzzle game? It said on the box, 25 hours of game play? She solved it in like an hour." (It was actually two hours. And the game was quite sad, really. My dog could have done most of it.) "She knows, like, everything. It's nuts."

"Scary."

"Yeah."

They asked me to play in the end anyway, but I politely declined, since I'm going out shortly. Besides, that kind of advance press is hard to live up to...