Umm. So I think I had my first “I feel old” moment Sunday night. So here’s how it went down. 10:30 pm I get a text message from a friend’s teenage daughter. She wants to interview me about year book questions and she needs an ‘old yearbook.’

First, I consider ignoring the text, seeing as she did preceed it with ‘are you still awake?’ Oh how I could have blissfully not answered and let it go. But then I thought of Amie’s post way back when… Pay it forward, Shelli, pay it forward. Even if it eats into your writing time. So I called her back.

I quickly regretted my decision when she sent me the list of questions I was to answer. First, I’m too young, she needed someone from the 80’s, but me in the mid 90’s would have to make due. So look at these doozies I got slapped with…

What is important to each group and how can you tell?

What is the economic status evident and what are the indicators?

What social conditions are present in each culture?

I looked at these and thought :wtf: why couldn’t you ask me about The Cranberries and Adult Onesies? I mean, she wanted me to THINK! As I’m writing a blow job scene, she wanted me to think deep thoughts about my high school years. Talk about killing the moment.

Anyway, onto the part I felt old. On the social conditions, I decided to mention our school was pretty heavily influenced by the Grunge movement. I mentioned Nirvana and Kurt Cobain and she writes back….what’s grunge? Okay…I could maybe understand the not knowing what Grunge is…maybe… IF WE DIDN’T LIVE IN SEATTLE! But anyway, it made me feel old, because I swear that movement was like…yesterday.

:wootrock:

But seriously. This is how I know I’m going to suck when my kid comes to me for help someday. When the girl wrote back and asked how she was supposed to turn my sparse answers into a full page report I told her: The questions suck, and that I had a WTF reaction to them, and that she should just ‘expand on my answer’ ie: make shit up.

*Sigh* Probably why I decided not to go into teaching as well. But, hey, at least I paid it forward…I think. Have you had an ‘I feel old moment’ yet?