We’re sitting on the couch listening to\/watching a band from Soph’s youth on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Soph’s youth, obviously, wasn’t so long ago – her being a super-young Spring chica and all.<\/p>\n
So I told her a little tale of how old I was made to feel today.<\/p>\n
Lunchtime.<\/p>\n
I went in to the new guitar shop in Abingdon. They’ve only been open a few weeks. The whole place has that lovely ‘just been unwrapped’ smell that comes with all new toys\/electrical goods\/books\/vinyl records…<\/p>\n
You know what I mean.<\/p>\n
Anyway, as I was browsing around, trying very hard not to fall in love with a delicious looking guitar on the back wall, a Bon Jovi song shuffled on to the iPod-plugged-in-to-an-expensive-docking-station-with-massive-external-speakers.<\/p>\n
The lad behind the till dawdled his way over to the iPod, to see who the artist was.<\/p>\n
‘Oh!’, he said. ‘Bon Jovi!’<\/p>\n
‘How could you not know it’s Bon Jovi?’ I asked. And foolishly added, ‘A 1980s band who never found their way out of the ’80s’.<\/p>\n
He looked a bit sheepish and said ‘I don’t remember them from the ’80s’.<\/p>\n
Great. Thanks.<\/p>\n
I paid for the two plectrums I’d picked up and legged it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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