Signs of Aging 5: EXTREME EDITION!

Today at lunch we asked our 18 year old intern what she's listening to.
She named a band none of us had ever heard of.
She named a radio station that no one ever listens to. I'd never heard of it.
I said, "The last time I tuned to that station, it was a Spanish language format."
People laughed. I didn't.

She then mentioned on the topic of Michael Jackson, that she has no idea what "Captain EO" is. When we tried to explain it, we admitted how stupid it sounded though we maintained "It's still rad."

Heh. "Rad." She probably thought what you thought when you heard your parents say, "Hep."
Or "Groovy." What is that, pity?

I noted that Michael Jackson must have had the biggest collection of the gayest t-shirts in the world. The rainbow shirt in EO. The piano keys shirt in "Beat It." I then started doing moves from the Beat It video for our intern's benefit. The visual aid did not work. Who gets into a knife fight wearing a piano keys t-shirt? MJ. That tough mofo. Such a thing is inconceivable for a young lady of 18.

OUR INTERN WAS BORN IN 1990. Where were you in 1990?

Then someone asked me about Hot Topic and I replied with no irony, "I'm 30. I won't go in there. Anyway, the music's always too loud."

Finally, a coworker in his 40s said something about Wings and I pointed and laughed at him. I did it again when he said he went to a Pretenders concert. Intern says, "Who are the Pretenders?"

At least I'm still in the mid-range of ages in our department.