10. They Always Ask What Year It Is
People do ask the question, Do you have the time, please? It is a common request for those without watches or with smartphones that have exhausted all of two hours worth of battery life. What people dont tend to say is, What year is this? The reason for this is because even the most daylight shy of individuals have a basic grasp of the calendar, and are able to, at the very least, identify the year in which they currently live. Time travellers are jumping around the timeline so much, that they often lose track of the date. Men in hats and newspaper sellers are often to most approachable providers of such information, but do not fear if it is ever you who is ask. All you need to do is follow the following template of dialogue;
TRAVELLER Excuse me, what date is it? YOU (provide day and month) TRAVELLER Of what year? YOU (act confused and then tell them the year, then watch them suspiciously whilst the meander about looking up at various billboards and nearly get run over)
It is as simple as that. Then you can go out and have a celebratory pizza, safe in the knowledge that you have become part of a very elite group of individuals. You have officially become a talking clock to those from another time. Most likely to say: What year?
CASE STUDIES: All of the above