A Sign Of Age

One sign of age is noting what teenagers these days would not get. You noticed these more and more as you get older I imagine.

I was struck by a Met Life ad recently, in which Lucy from Peanuts suggested that insurance should be five cents to which the guy responded, not everything can be five cents. I started to wonder if kids these days would get the reference. Peanuts still runs in most newspapers, but who really gets newspapers anymore, and do kids read the funnies? It seems like a timeless classic, but I was struck with the thought that it just might not be. It wouldn’t be the first time. If you’re a teenager do you/did you get it without looking it up? (Try “Lucy, Peanuts, five cents”) If you’ve got a teenage kid, ask them if they get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iin3EVfN0Jc