Current mood: bedazzled and short of head space
Current music: ‘Maroon’ – Barenecked Ladies
You know you’re getting old when…
You think you can easily replace the hard drive in your laptop only to waste the whole evening being unable to get the thing apart having removed every screw you can find and then when you finally give up and put the screws back in, you have about 6 left over and just cannot be arsed to put them back in.
And, you talk the computer techie at work to do the job for you only to find out that he hasn’t seen ‘Back to the Future’ (the DVD hastily removed from the drive as you hand it over) because, wait for it, he wasn’t even born when it came out.
My mid life crisis is predicated on the notion that a whole new generation knows nothing of the cultural values that I (and I hopefully speak for my generation) have used to construct my understanding of the world. It’s not so much a case of ‘youngsters today know nothing’, it’s more case of ‘youngsters today know loads of things that I don’t.’ No wonder I seem barely able to tiptoe through modern life and they seem to stride across it without even noticing.
I’m not too upset though. I’ve got the ‘Back to the Future’ box set to keep me happy .
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