Two unrelated things I don't understand.
- A Prairie Home Companion. This radio show eats up 2 hours of air time every Saturday on KUOW. I can imagine people who would listen to this show, and I can imagine people who listen to NPR affiliates—I suspect the intersection of those two sets is incredibly small. I'm certainly not in that area of overlap.
- Drinking soda with breakfast. When did this become acceptable for anyone over the age of twelve?
- "If you showed up on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul and plunked down your $1 admission (50 cents for kids) to attend the very first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, you were in select company. There were about 12 people in the audience. But those in attendance thought there were worse ways to spend a Saturday afternoon."
- The once 12 year olds are now all grown up, and they demand thier soda.
I'm not sold on the whole 12-year-olds growing up thing. Soda has been around (in genuinely popular form) since the 1930s. That's a lot of 12-year-olds who already have grandkids of their own.
That said, I wasn't actually alive in the 1950s—but it seems that it's only been a recent phenomenon (last 10 year or so?) that (grown) people drink soda for breakfast.
--D