2006-16= Holy Crap I'm Old
In preparation for the Very Laid Back Diaper Shower I hosted for my best friend last Saturday, I paid a visit to our local video store - list of suggested titles in hand. I also had Hannah in hand.
I spent about ten minutes trying to surmise the most apropos genre for each film and alternately searching for the movie and jaunting back into the aisle to make sure no one had abducted Hannah from her post in front of the candy section (from which she could not be blasted). I was rewarded with one, single, solitary movie: Baby Boom.
My find did perk me up, however, since I was a tad doubtful I'd even find it on DVD. I was also excited because my best friend had somehow managed to never see the film - a movie I can easily point to for any one of a handful of misconceptions I had about being a woman or a mother. (80s movies were choc' ful 'o neuroses for young girls to buy into.)
But I didn't feel like playing more freeze tag with Hannah, so I scooped her up and headed to the front to ask for assistance. I explained to the young girl behind the counter that I was hosting a diaper party and wanted some baby-themed movies. I then proceeded to name three or four so she'd get the idea and be able to contribute or point me in the right direction.
"Well, let me see," she said, pulling up something on her computer. "What was the name of that first one?"
"Nine Months," I replied, baby on hip.
"Uh... we have 9 1/2 Weeks," she offers up, hopeful. (Later, when I recount the story for my friends, they offer up that 9 1/2 Weeks is what gets you into the trouble of Nine Months.)
"Um, no. That's not really what I'm looking for." I'm a little surprised that she seems unfamiliar with Nine Months, but I give her the benefit of the doubt and move on to another title. "How 'bout Three Men and a Baby?"
"Three Minute Baby?" she asks.
"No, Three Men and a Baby," I state - making sure to enunciate this time.
She furrows her brow and looks back at the screen. "Nope. We don't have that."
Now I'm really confused. How can she not know these movies? But I give her another shot. "Okay, let's try She's Having a Baby." Surely she knows this one. How can you not? Kevin Bacon? It's replayed on cable all the freakin' time!
"Hm... Nope. Not that one either." There's not even a glimmer of recognition.
I look at her and try a reality check. Maybe this is her first job. That would make her, what, 16? So, 2006 minus 16 give me... oh SHIT! She wasn't born until 1990!!!! Here I am, some ancient 29-year-old (with a KID no less) asking her about all these OLD films that were made way back in the 80s.
My friends said I should have really thrown her by asking if they had the movies in Beta.
Maybe you should have asked if they had any games for your Intelevision.
Posted by: Heather Ann | August 16, 2006 at 08:14 PM
I'll be 29 in 2 months, and am constantly made to feel ancient by high school kids. Hell, anyone under the age of 25 makes me feel old when I start referencing the 80's. I mean, *come on*, people!!
I remember looking up to some "older" female friends when I was a teen, and I just realized on Sunday, as I was hanging out w/my BFF and her 15 y.o. twin cousins, that *I* am now *their* "older" friend. *Sigh* Where did my youth disappear to?
So, how'd the shower go, despite the lack of "baby" movies?
Posted by: Natalee | August 16, 2006 at 08:59 PM
I'll be 29 in 2 months, and am constantly made to feel ancient by high school kids. Hell, anyone under the age of 25 makes me feel old when I start referencing the 80's. I mean, *come on*, people!!
I remember looking up to some "older" female friends when I was a teen, and I just realized on Sunday, as I was hanging out w/my BFF and her 15 y.o. twin cousins, that *I* am now *their* "older" friend. *Sigh* Where did my youth disappear to?
So, how'd the shower go, despite the lack of "baby" movies?
Posted by: Natalee | August 16, 2006 at 08:59 PM
Oh, sorry for the double post-guess I hit the button twice!
Posted by: Natalee | August 16, 2006 at 09:01 PM
umm - I'm 36 - How the hell do you think I feel? I was recently ID'd for a beer purchase (and in recently I mean a year ago) and I'm still talking about it - (see) - You are not old - trust me on this one ;)
Posted by: cursingmama | August 17, 2006 at 07:55 AM
I'm 26, and it occurred (occured?) to me when I turned 26 that I had been driving for 10 years. A decade ago, I got my driving permit, and the fact that I remember what I was wearing and the screaming my dad did when he claims I pulled straight across a driving lane in a mall parking lot - well, it all makes me feel old. I know I'm not, but I feel it!
Plus, there are 16 year olds at my church that I remember holding as newborns. Seriously, old.
Posted by: Kim | August 17, 2006 at 08:17 AM
I took a group of college students on a spring break trip a couple of years ago. The only music station we got in the small town in the mountains we were in was a lite FM. The music was good, I knew all the words, was singing along...finally someone from the back of the van says "hey, when did you graduate from high school anyway?"
I pulled the van over, turned back and said "1989 and if any of you say that's the year you were born, you're walking home."
Posted by: Rachel | August 17, 2006 at 08:22 AM
You should get Netflix, then you can be old anonymously
Posted by: spit | August 17, 2006 at 08:46 AM
Love all of those movies! Oh, and every teen should watch "For Keeps"...sure scared the crap out of me!
For some reason, I always remember the anniversary of my first visit from AF...this year was my 16th anniversary!! It doesn't seem possible. Yeesh!! And how many (hopefully) more to go?!?!?!
Posted by: Kirsten | August 17, 2006 at 09:56 AM
Wow. That makes me feel old and I'm only 25!
On a related note, my friend was dancing around her house doing the Vogue and her little sister asked her what the heck she was doing. Her little sister had no idea what voguing was!
Posted by: Crystal | August 17, 2006 at 11:50 AM
I'll be 36 this fall and I recently had the cheering thought, "Wow, I'm closer to 50 than to 20." Oh, and the kids who were born the year I graduated from high school? They graduated from high school this year. Clearly, I should call myself a crone and be done with it.
Posted by: shayneegray | August 17, 2006 at 12:40 PM
I had the same freak out when i realize that the freshman college class entering our university in the next few weeks weren't born when I was graduating from high school. Oy, what a reality SLAP!
Posted by: Jen | August 17, 2006 at 02:37 PM
Ugh...It's sad to think that they know nothing of the 80s. Kind of makes me watn to cry.
Posted by: Miss W | August 17, 2006 at 04:42 PM
I'd just like to say that I'd almost forgotten the term 'beta' ever referred to anything other than hCG.
Posted by: jdegirl | August 17, 2006 at 07:33 PM
I used to babysit someone who has been a Major League Baseball player for over 5 years! (Yes, I've gotten free tickets)
I'm also 36. And 3 months.
I bet she wouldn't know the Fonz either. Kids these days are really missing out.
Posted by: Kay | August 18, 2006 at 09:25 AM
I'm 40, and my son's 4th-grade teacher -- whom we met last night at Open House -- was born in 1984.
Ye gads.
Posted by: Lisa | August 18, 2006 at 10:44 AM
1984. I started university in 1984.
Posted by: Heather Ann | August 18, 2006 at 06:41 PM
Hilarious!
Posted by: Louise | August 19, 2006 at 08:38 AM
A few years ago, I was flipping through my younger cousin's collection of cd's (she 13 at the time, I 26)...I held one up and said, "oh, this is such a cool soundtrack - I have it on tape!"
She looked at me blankly and said, "What's a tape?"
Posted by: Cory | August 21, 2006 at 03:18 PM