…rcasm. Tom said he can’t hear where I’m actually from, though, and to his credit, he’s never asked. “One does not ask, if one has any class at all, where someone is from,” he joked, putting on a mock posh accent. This isn’t actually a rule that people often adhere to, but I have to say: It feels really damn classy when they do, because it signals to me that they care more about what I am saying than how I say it.