Television: April 2006 Archives

the following is a conversation i had with a girlfriend (gf) while watching gilmore girls.

let me paint a pretty gilmore girl scene for you:
a male character (luke) throws a birthday party for his pre-teen daughter.  it is suggested (by lorelei) that the party turn into a slumber party.

gf: there is no way she would suggest that.  she's going to have to call twelve sets of parents to get permission.

me:  what are you talking about?  these are privileged children today.  they all have cell phones.

out come the kids calling parents on their cell phones.

gf: man.  what did we do growing up without cell phones?  i completely dated myself.  man.

it is weird to see something like that change.  it would have been an ordeal when i was a kid.  i guess the one good thing is that at least my childhood wasn't inflicted by brain tumors induced by cell phone usage.