At work some coffin-dodging bastard has switched to Gold. Allegedly all the best songs from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s. Actually all rock ‘n’ roll, and a few pop songs from the latter decades. Apparently there was no hippy era, no punk, no new wave British heavy metal, no gothic. Just saccharin 60’s and the odd inoffensive mainstream pop song.
Which brings me to my point, spleen vented.
They have played Cindy Lauper’s ‘Girl’s Just Wanna Have Fun’ a few times. Each time I hear it I feel a bittersweet pain.
I am suffused with a nostalgic melancholy for a loss I can’t quite pinpoint.
It’s not the song, which I like in an off-hand way. It’s not exactly the time in my life when it was in the charts.
I have been thinking about it. O.K., so I was getting drunk but I was still working full time and my standard of living, due to the above, was considerably poorer than now.
It seems to be some sort of product of the milieu, the zeitgeist and my own age of innocence.
Girls just want to have fun.
We were young, all the fun was new and thrilling (not the dependencies they would become) life was innocent and hopeful, and we were all just kids. Trying to live the dream of the day, which was to be totally ‘right-on’, (which later became ‘Politically Correct’ and a stick with which to beat the dream to death.)
You weren’t a man, woman, black, white, atheist, Muslim, whatever, you were all people, and it could all work out.
I’m getting choked up looking back on that.
‘So young, so dumb’, as a later songstress would say.
Sorry about that, I was trying to capture a feeling and explain it. Wendy objects strongly to me writing it, so if it was too much…, well, tough tits, we ain’t in the 80’s no more!
…..And, we’re back in the room. Senior moment over with.
What has been happening with your quest for a driving job? I hear you cry. Potentially good news, at last!
For months every job I’ve seen is either advertised as ‘must have extensive previous experience’ or it turns out to be a prerequisite when I have applied.
Out of nowhere, like the proverbial bus, three come along at once that state ‘previous experience preferred, but not essential’.
Woo-hoo!
I’ve applied for two of them, (the third was 20-50 hours, I need to be sure of more than 20 hours).
One of them is for a car transporter driver. Not great in many ways, I’d have to take a pay cut on my basic, might be away from home for a week at a time, and it’s at Ellsmere Port (about 25 miles away, so petrol money would be more). However, when I rang them (turns out it’s an agency fielding the contract) they said that the jobs were full at the mo, ring them back every fortnight on a Friday and they would get me in. No experience necessary as two weeks training given!
That will do me!
Gotta go, boss says it’s bed time.
Buck.