March 6, 2007

You might be old if. . .

Mr. BBM and I went out with my sister and some of her friends on Saturday night. We had a blast. I haven’t been out in a very LONG time, so it was nice to have dinner without the girls for a change. We also went to Dave & Buster’s and then hit a cool bar that had a great band playing. Mr. BBM, my sister and I all "got our groove on." It was a nice night out.

Mr. BBM and I right before we went out. . .

I did realize, however, that my crowd of people was certainly a bit older looking than the rest of the crowd. Here are some of the ways you can tell you might be a little older than the rest of the crowd:

1. You get to and from the bar in a mini-van. The people in the back seat may have been intrigued by the Elmo video playing on a constant loop.

2. You don’t get carded.

3. The drunken guy who says, "How you DOIN”?" as he stumbles up the stairs behind you looks to you like he’s about 14.

4. The song "You down with OPP" draws you out to the dance floor. I still don’t know what that song means, but it makes you want to dance. (Just so you know, I’d like to remain completely naive as to what that song means so please don’t tell me.)

The rest of our crowd, NOT drawn out to the dance floor by OPP. One of the crowd was researching on the internet via cell phone. That is how you know you’re a dork (or K-Jo which is the new nickname for the one in our crowd who was a "Kill Joy".)

5. You know every single word to the old school rap music mix played while the band breaks, including the songs, "The Choice is Yours" ("You can get with this, or you can get with that. . . this is where it’s at. . .") "Humpty Dance," and "Doin’ the Butt."

6. You also know all the appropriate dance moves to go with said songs, and you don’t care one bit how stupid you look while doing them.

Me and . . . um, err. . . blacked out eyes have been added to protect the innocent (i.e. person whose work-mates sometimes read this blog. . . Hi Girls!)

7. You start chanting for Salt ‘N Pepa’s "Push it" because Duh, that’s obviously a song that should go with that set!

8. When a guy on the dance floor tells you he likes your shirt, you totally believe that he really likes your shirt and that it isn’t a ploy to get your number.

9. The last call jello shot totally does you in. You realize this too late, as your sister pulls out from her wallet the yellowing piece of paper that you gave her when she went off to college that says, "Beer before Liquor-Never Sicker; Liquor before Beer-In the Clear; Liquor before Wine-Feeling Fine; Wine before Liquor-Can’t get much sicker; Wine Before Beer-Have no Fear."

10. Instead of singing along with the radio on the way home, you promptly fall asleep as does everyone else in the van (minus the designated driver of course), as soon as you realize that the designated driver is not going to stop at McDonald’s despite the urgent plea’s to do so.

This night out marked the first time that Lil C spent the night at the grandparents house, AND she did AWESOME! When we picked the girls up on Sunday, my Mom said, "You should do this more often. . ." to which I responded, "Yeah, how about next weekend? Same time? Same place?"

We old people definitely need to go out more often to show the young ones how it’s done!