I’m not old……am I ?
On Saturday I was chatting to Mel my weekend carer and she was telling me about her niece and how she loved reading and she loved rabbits so the obvious book to get her was “Watership Down”, right! Well she totally shocked me when she said that her niece had never heard of it…….. ok she’s only 9 yrs old, but… “Watership Down”.
Then I was thinking back to last week and watching “The Chase” which is the first program I watch during the day, a contestant was asked a question that I thought ridiculous, I mean how could anyone have not heard of “John Wayne”. Surely everyone, I mean everyone in the world knows of the iconic cowboy, then I recalled questions that I honestly considered absolutely ridiculous being asked about Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn and Gene Kelly’s “Singing in the rain”. Questions I’d heard asked about “Agatha Christie” or “James Cagney” just amazed me. How could questions about “Ghostbusters” be asked as who was in the original version….Two weeks back I’d heard a question about who had made moonwalking famous while performing a song and I nearly stopped watching the show thinking how pathetic that someone didn’t know of Michael Jackson or “The Beatles”. Then in a horrible shocking almost devastating moment I realised and internally accepted that it wasn’t because those contestants were numb or stupid, it’s just that they were under 30 yrs old and it’s me Stefan that’s not a youngster anymore and that actually I really am old, bummer!!!.
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