Not Cool

The other day I was driving my 9 year old niece and her friend somewhere and they were asking me to scan through radio stations to find a good song. After 5 or 6 duds, I stumbled on Hotel California and said, "hey, this is a great song!" From the back seat there was an uncomfortable pause and then, in a voice heavy with annoyance my niece said, "my mom likes this song."

Well, I'm a mom. "Yeah, I guess moms like this song."

But everyone should like this song. It's a classic! It has an awesome guitar solo. It's melodic rock in its prime. Sure, it was written before I was born, but it's timeless! Or so I thought. I guess it's not cool to like this song anymore. Which means I'm not cool. Unless you think it's cool to know all the words to Hotel California. Then I stand corrected.

I didn't change the station. We listened to the whole thing and I sang every word.