Things you recognize as...
Of course, I try my best to come across as fresh and fruity and to be very sharp (with this remark, I immediately reveal my calendar age), but it really becomes clear multiple times a week that there is a significant generation gap between me and the girls at the (another old people word) editorial office. Thank God for Danielle, who was brewed in the same year as I was and still understands my jokes. But I can't share this with the rest.
1. Terence Trent D’Arby
They don't know him. Just like Lisa Bonet, by the way. They do know The Cosby Show for apparent reasons, but Dwayne Wayne (who by the way has now become three Dwaynetjes) from A Different World... Never heard of him.
2. That Twix used to be called Raider
They don't know. Just like After Eight. Recently, I spotted an intern who had never heard of the phenomenon Chokotoff. Chokotoff! That used to be my dinner.
3. Bhagwan
I recently wore a skirt in a faded pink color. I actually wanted to wear a sweater from American Vintage in the same shade, but then I thought I looked a bit too much like a Bhagwan devotee. You know, one of those types you spotted in every shopping street in the nineties who always wanted to sell you all sorts of philosophical booklets. Everyone looked at me as if I were speaking Chinese and Russian at the same time. Luckily, Daan could laugh about it.
4. Fellini and Cartouch
If you lived in Utrecht, you hung out there in the lamps. They don't know that anymore.
5. Do you know what the worst part is?
That they then say: “I vaguely know it. From my parents.’ There will come a time (and it really won't be long) when I will be older than the parents of the interns.
6. Video cassettes
Or that you rented a Betacam device for the weekend with a few ‘pre-recorded video cassettes’. Netflix was a utopia.
7. Cassette tapes
And then record your favorite radio program. And yes, also press ‘play record’ yourself and then sing along.
8. Songs with endless intros
Channel surfing didn't exist yet. So ‘When the Rain Begins to Fall’ by Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson (I understand they don't know that either) only started after one and a half minutes. I swear to you. After one and a half minutes. I timed it. And why does every clip from the eighties consist of two rival groups with dances that depict every word?
9. The cow strip
Where has it gone? For 99 cents, you had five strips. That on white bread... Heaven.
10. Callanetics
No? Tae Bo? Not that either? I'm definitely going to book a little room in the nursing home, okay?
