Saturday, August 6, 2016

What's My Age Again by Blink 182

It was the morning of July 30, 2000.  I arrived at work in a great mood, it being my birthday and as previously documented, right in the middle of an epic summer.  I had several voice mails, most of them work related, but one decidedly not.  My sister had left me a delightful message.  She wished me a happy birthday, rambled a bit, and then queued up What's My Age Again.  She didn't have it queued up exactly where she wanted it, so there was a bit she did about "having technical difficulties" and there was some mumbling until the line she was waiting for kicked in.  The line was very appropriate: "nobody likes you when you're 23". It was appropriate because this was my 23rd birthday, NOT because nobody liked me.  To be clear. I must've played that message 10 times throughout the day.  I definitely played it on speakerphone to share with everyone else.  I was of course the person who got the most pleasure and amusement out of it because it was 100% Cato and I loved it and I love her.  She still calls me on my birthday every year, but no message has topped that one, when I was 23.