When I was a teen, one of the coolest girls in the senior class drove me to school. She always was perfectly dressed and she'd drive with her hands flexed on the steering wheel to allow her nails to dry. With her best friend in the front seat, I got a glimpse into a more polished and avant guarde atmosphere than I would ever experience in high school as they punched the radio stations incessantly searching for the next song they'd allow to play through to completion. They knew all the cool songs and all things artsy. I kept wondering where they found out all this stuff; like there was a secret club that only certain people were initiated into during those formative years, and that it was on a need to know basis. I hero worshiped enough to imitate.
Being a first child, it had never occurred to me to be fickle with the radio. I'd always just waited for the next song. Now, there were buttons to push. I tried driving like she did with wet nails but I'd always forget and snag the polish on something such that by the time I got where I was going, my fingers were sticky goey ugly messes. Three car accidents later, I became faithful to two stations for the rest of my teen years, but the temptation to engage in perpetual flipping from one station to another stayed.
Now as I enter the age of having a teenage daughter, a state from which I will not leave until some time in 2026, I am learning a whole new way to have ADD with music as she sat at my computer pulling up song after song from two radio stations dueling online playlists. She was bopping along, cranking one cool tune after another of songs I knew we didn't own as she worked and I had to ask, "How do you do that?" She indulged my ignorance and now, I will be even more distracted from life than before. But again, I'm peeking into a cooler rarer world than I normally dwell.
It's as fun as I remember and while I know I still couldn't keep my nails dry and work the mouse at the same time if I tried such a thing, maybe with the next technological upgrade it will be possible. In the meantime, I'm hoping not to have any computer crashes as a result of my new found distraction.
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2 comments:
what's this?? pulling 2 radio stations at once? how do you DO THAT???
oh I feel so...so...so....geeky and left out all of a sudden.
is there something on the back of my pants?
Wow...looks like we are on the same wave-length, I wrote a post about being "uncool". Kids are fun that way, they seem to always be so much cooler than we were when we were kids, but mark my word, after they grow up you will see that you were the cool one all along.
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