You are old, Sister New Kid

I think this is going to have to be a running series...

So, apart from the classmate who'd never seen people smoke indoors, I've recently run into a classmate who is completely unfamiliar with the Keystone Kops (mind you, I've never seen movies featuring them, but I'm familiar with the concept).

I also ran into two classmates who had never heard of "Hey Mikey! He likes it!" (We were talking about Pop Rocks, and I made a comment about how they'd been pulled off the market for a while when I was a kid, and the urban legend was that the Life kid Mikey had died from drinking a soda while eating Pop Rocks, which made his head explode. But they had no idea who the Life kid Mikey was.)

This isn't a criticism of anyone involved, mind you; I just think it's funny when I'm confronted with real live proof that yes, I am way older than many of my classmates.

That is all.

Comments

[Psyc Girl]

Mmmmmmmm poprocks!

[Laura]

I'm way older than the new teachers, who are mostly right out of their ed programs, i.e. 23, 24. Luckily, I'm the same age as many of the mid-career teachers, so I end up hanging with them.

[Pilgrimheretic]

I remember my brother dressing up as Mikey for halloween. :)

[Dr. Virago]

Also, you have older parents. I always felt older than even my actual peers because I knew about things like the Keystone Cops.

But you know what will cheer you up? Watching SNL. Seriously, it's all Gen-X references all the time. "Bullock" and I crack up every time they do one of those Vincent Price and friends routines, because we remember those shows from the 70s. They were weird back then (and that's one layeer of the humor now), because they so clearly skewed to an older generation (my parents and yours), which then gives me a double kind of silly pleasure. But we sit there and wonder: are we the only people who love this sketch??

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Dr. V - you're totally right! (Vincent Price... truly creepy!) I think that a lot of younger folks probably love the Vincent Price sketches because they are weird and creepy, and vaguely get that it's a take-off on something old, but don't get that layer of it. (Then again, they get many current pop culture things that I don't, so we're even.) But yes, the older parents thing definitely makes a difference.

Laura - the thing that's oddest is that I'm the same age as a bunch of my professors, and honestly, while I have a lot of cool classmates I really like, I still feel like hanging out with my profs would be the most natural thing, socially. Which is, of course, totally unnatural and unhelpful given being a student again. Sigh.

And I love poprocks and Mikey! Pilgrim Heretic, did your brother dress up as Mikey with his head exploded from poprocks?

[The Angry Swan]

Maybe they're just way unaware rather than way young. I know who the Keystone Kops and Mikey-the-Life-cereal-kid are, and I'm 25 (unless 25 is also old).

[Nike Shox Clearance]

If we are able to only come upon each and every other as opposed to stay with each and every other,then I wish we experienced by no implies encountered.