...And The Classics From Pearl Jam...

I love writing at Starbucks, especially when I'm waiting for traffic to subside after the final tech support call of the day leaves me stranded across town from the Swamp. There's never a lack of good people watching, as all types of folks come in to get their fix.

My problem with being a people watcher is that I want to jump in on people's conversations when I have the answer to one of their questions... or when I want to smack some idiot upside the skull when something they say drives me to scream.

Some Gen-Y goombah sitting at the next table just asked his girlfriend, "Who's the lead singer for the Rolling Stones?" His girlfriend told him Mick Jagger, and he replies, "Oh, yeah."

He proceeds to do that intermittently over the next ten minutes for Foo Fighters, Nirvana, U2, Van Halen, and Coldplay. His girlfriend dutifully answered each question.

The last thing I heard him say, as they were leaving to get into his brand new Range Rover, was "I'm really getting into old music, like Nirvana."

Aaaaaaaauughhhh! Sometimes I wish my my fingers emitted mace!

Comments

[Emy]

Goddamn kids!

[Mike G.]

This is probably self-torture, but I can't help going to Hot Topic and watch the keystones of my poular culture cycle from novelty, to ironic kitsch, to post-ironic deconstructionism and back again to nostalgia.