Weren’t you.

Your clearance is eleven days old and your parking pass is from the vendor lot.”

I have since learned that he had checked the parking system.

He had done it the day my access was provisioned.

He was, whatever else is true about him, not a fool.

And I said nothing, and he nodded, and then he said the thing that I did not understand for eleven months.

“I don’t care who you were, you know.