Pass the Geritol

[faithellen]

I was at the grocery store (where they usually have the satellite tuned to the 80's station, so yes, that's me singing in the aisles). At the checkout, I heard one of the bagboys exclaim "The Cars? There's a band called The Cars??" One of the other customers and I started asking questions...he'd heard of the Talking Heads, but only because there was a reference to it in the third Harry Potter movie. The woman asked if he knew of the Beatles (yes) and I snarked "Paul McCartney was in a group before Wings?"

He said, puzzled, "Wings?"

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[ilostonjeopardy.livejournal.com]

If I had the energy, I'd drive down there and beat him with my shoe. Just cause.

[whizzrjohn.livejournal.com]

A few weeks ago, I had just gotten into work and stopped by the front desk to see what was going on just as the day tour was getting ready to go out on the road. The classic rock station is on the radio as I chat for a few minutes with Don, the lieutenant in charge of the tour. He was hired the class right after me, was promoted the same time as me, and is within a couple of months of me in age; in other words, we are contemporaries.

A few minutes after I get back to my office, my phone rings and I can see that it is the tour commander's phone. As I answer, I hear Don shouting to me over the music that is blaring in the background, asking if I know what song is playing. Of course, I immediately recognize the extended instrumental guitar solos from the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" (the studio version in this case) and tell him so. Apparently, he is mortified that not one of the five officers going on the road, nor the desk officer, nor the radio operator, is familiar with this particular piece of Americana.

:::sigh::: Kids today...no appreciation for the classics.