I am not usually one to just post random stuff, but I have to get this out somehow. My brain hurts when I think about it.
Last night, the girl who lives next to me said to a friend (who whistled for a moment leaving her room), "Woah! You can whistle?!" Well, silly us, we had assumed that whistling was not an uncommon skill. She tried and couldn't even come close to getting a single note out. Do you live in a cave? How can you not whistle or at least know that it's a pretty common thing to know?
This is not an isolated incident: I called her G once as a joke (I'm so white that it has to be a joke) and she had NO IDEA what I was saying at all.
I mentioned I watched the movie Contact yesterday (the Carl Sagan movie, not the trials one) and it came out that she had no idea who Jodie Foster is. I was like, "Ummm...Nell, Taxi Driver, The Accused, Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room....anything?" She hadn't seen a single one and I doubt that she had heard of most of them. This same thing happened last week when someone mentioned James Earl Jones.
My friend called her a "ho" and she really had no clue what the kid was talking about.
I was telling a story the other day and used the 4 letter "c" word in it (it was integral to the story). She recounted how she tried to use that word in scrabble or some game and her mother and sister were a bit offended. Turns out she didn't know what it meant or that it was a really, really offensive word. This was about 3 months ago....she's 19 or 20 years old.....
...the list goes on. Now, I don't pretend to know pop culture. I don't watch TV (maybe 15 minutes a week, often less), I don't listen to the radio, I don't see many movies, most of my time is spent in rural Vermont, etc. I thought this girl must have been from some backwater town or lived on a commune or something. Surpise, surprise, she lives like 20 minutes outside of L.A.
Perhaps all of this is particularly interesting to me because I have a date with her tommorrow night, which is a whole different story....
Last night, the girl who lives next to me said to a friend (who whistled for a moment leaving her room), "Woah! You can whistle?!" Well, silly us, we had assumed that whistling was not an uncommon skill. She tried and couldn't even come close to getting a single note out. Do you live in a cave? How can you not whistle or at least know that it's a pretty common thing to know?
This is not an isolated incident: I called her G once as a joke (I'm so white that it has to be a joke) and she had NO IDEA what I was saying at all.
I mentioned I watched the movie Contact yesterday (the Carl Sagan movie, not the trials one) and it came out that she had no idea who Jodie Foster is. I was like, "Ummm...Nell, Taxi Driver, The Accused, Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room....anything?" She hadn't seen a single one and I doubt that she had heard of most of them. This same thing happened last week when someone mentioned James Earl Jones.
My friend called her a "ho" and she really had no clue what the kid was talking about.
I was telling a story the other day and used the 4 letter "c" word in it (it was integral to the story). She recounted how she tried to use that word in scrabble or some game and her mother and sister were a bit offended. Turns out she didn't know what it meant or that it was a really, really offensive word. This was about 3 months ago....she's 19 or 20 years old.....
...the list goes on. Now, I don't pretend to know pop culture. I don't watch TV (maybe 15 minutes a week, often less), I don't listen to the radio, I don't see many movies, most of my time is spent in rural Vermont, etc. I thought this girl must have been from some backwater town or lived on a commune or something. Surpise, surprise, she lives like 20 minutes outside of L.A.
Perhaps all of this is particularly interesting to me because I have a date with her tommorrow night, which is a whole different story....
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