08.01.2007
Generation Slap
Given my time between posts, Jeffrey in Tennessee kindly writes to ask if I am ill, and the truth is, I am. Yesterday, I passed a sunglasses stand and, remembering a request from one of my employees, stopped to inquire of the very young woman running the place if she had any styles that resembled those recently worn by Bono of U2.
“Who of what?”
“Bono? You know . . . of U2? The band? ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’?”
To say she looked at me blankly would be an understatement. She gazed at my coordinates in space-time as if they were occupied by air that was even less interesting than the air surrounding it.
I tried again, this time experimenting with volume. “You know, Bono?”
Blink. “Hold on a second.” She opened her cell phone and dialed someone. “Hey, I have a question. Do you know, um, Bon? Bono? From Yoohoo?”
“U2!” I shrieked.
“Yes: You, too. Do you know him? What kind of sunglasses does he wear? Uh huh. Uh huh. OK, great. Thanks, dad. Bye.”
Dad.
I am ill.
posted by
David at 11:20 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who name-drops a mid-80's album when talking about U2... hey, you know what'd be fun? Let's start a fight in your comments about whether War or Joshua Tree is better! I'll go first: it's totally War.
posted by:
jwer on 08.02.2007 at 8:31 AM
Was just telling Mrs Coffeedog yesterday, everyone is younger than us now!
posted by:
Coffeedog on 08.02.2007 at 1:22 PM
Oh that's just sad! When did we become as old as our fathers?
posted by:
Curtis on 08.02.2007 at 5:41 PM
Jwer: I am partial to Joshua Tree, actually. But I think of that as their classic, signature stuff, so it makes sense that one would mention those albums first.
Coffeedog and Curtis: I have convinced myself that it may not be as much of an age thing as I had feared. Bono has been one of the most famous people in the world for a generation, and he's still in the news all the time now. There's no way someone would not have HEARD of him unless they are stupid or culturally illiterate . . . youth is no excuse!
posted by:
David on 08.03.2007 at 7:07 PM
Ah, you should have said, "You know. Bono? The activist?"
Aren't all the kids up on these things in our post 9/11 world? What? They're not? But that's crazy!
By the way, this is one of my favorite blog posts in a while.
posted by:
Karen on 08.04.2007 at 7:37 PM
I would have stalked away in disgust before she ever had a chance to call her father.
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