Birthday Wishes

[liz_marcs]

Hey, nwhepcat...

How do you know when you're getting old?

When you're driving home and are singing along with "What I Like About You" by the Romantics at the top of your lungs...

And as soon as the song fades out, you find out that you're tuned to the radio station that plays the "Classic Rock, Home of Yesterday's Hits" selection.

Damn. Aren't they supposed to be playing early Rolling Stones or the Beatles or something?

Happy Birthday!*



*This birthday message brought to you by, "I need a high pressure hose to finish cleaning this office."

Comments

[tnrkitect.livejournal.com]

It could be worse. The local classic rock station down here has been playing Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and old Green Day for the last several years.

[szandara.livejournal.com]

You're still younger than me. Which means you are categorically NOT OLD. Got that?? NOT OLD, dammit.

Harrrumph.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Hey, I've done that... although the station I'm on just has "Best of the 70s, 80s, and whatever we feel like" as its tagline. But I'm young yet! I can't be old! I'm only 32! Woe! Alas! *clasps hand to forehead in mock angst* ; )

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

I don't mind so much the Classic Rock label, but when I heard a song that came out when I was in my 20s on an Oldies station, I got mad!

[ponders-life.livejournal.com]

You're younger than both me and szandara. In fact, have you heard the phrase "spring chicken"? Yeah. So there.

::grin::

[skipp-of-ark.livejournal.com]

Well, I could be polite and tell you and nwhepcat that you're still young, young at heart, blahblahpatronizingcakes, etc.

Instead, I'll just remind ya'll that you're both older than me and mock instead.

What was your reaction to the invention of dirt, anyway?

*runs away*

:)

[wormtorturer.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction when it happened to me.

Also, I've noticed a lot of 80s music on the radio and the music subscriptions they have in chain stores. Does that mean people our age are in the target demographic, or just that people in general will listen to it and keep shopping? (Up here in the Outer Planets, I have learned to put up with country music while shopping. I guess it's better than rap, but still...)

First sign of age

[(Anonymous)]

From: SenorTact

For me the first sign that I was getting old was the day I found myself standing in a line waiting to pay at a gas station behind a teenager and caught myself thinking that her mom was kinda cute

[Sigh]

I now feel the need to go and be a crotchety curmudgeon

[set-aka-ian.livejournal.com]

I had age-related trauma the first time I heard Queensryche playing on the musak in Wal-Mart.

I'm still not over it. I had to go home and listen to Mindcrime again.

We shall never speak of the air-jamming to Europe's The Final Countdown, back in the day, understand? It's my 'electric kool-aid funky Satan groove' thing and I'm not proud of it.