Approaching the last week of my twenties, I attended a birthday celebration for a dear friend. It was a fairly intimate group that gathered for dinner on Saturday evening on Pearl Street, and after dinner we went to the new bar Press Play. It's a basic arcade bar, with lots of classic Atari games (BG had the high score on the Centipede console for a while) and some fun pinball machines. We had been there before, but not really on a weekend night, or when students were in town. It got packed pretty quickly, and there was more than one moment when I had the thought "I think I am getting too old for this..."
I was lamenting this fact when somebody else at our table said something along the same line. We laughed at our observation, and throughout the night added to the list of things that we found ridiculous about our situation.
You know your twenties are over when...
1.) You think the music is loud before the DJ is completely set up.
2.) You think the waitress pushing jello shots needs to put some pants on.
3.) The 2x4 Jenga game collapsing onto the concrete floor makes you wonder if ear plugs would be prudent.
4.) You think the pool tables are too close together, because you can hear the guys playing next to you talking about getting arrested.
5.) You are glad you skipped the heels and opted for something with less character because you know your feet would be killing you all weekend.
6.) You wonder if she is wearing a shirt or a dress.
7.) You think all of the boys in the room need a haircut and a new razor.
8.) You don't get carded at the bar.
9.) You see somebody you might recognize from high school, and realize that was 15 years ago, and it's most probably not them.
10.) You can't imagine sticking around for last call.
Sometimes I think I have hung on to some amount of youth, and then I have a night like this and realize that I am facing 30 head-on. And, honestly, I am okay with that.
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