The first category during last night's rousing session of barroom trivia was "Movies". In this case, the movies in question all happened to be 1980s John Hughes flicks. Therefore every other question contained a reference to Molly Ringwald. After about question five, some dude in the corner piped up, "Who the fuck is Molly Ringwald?" The bar became silent for about two beats before the bartender, logically, asked to see the kid's ID. It turns out, however, that it is entirely possible for a person to have no frame of reference for this topic and still be of legal drinking age.
What's worse is that our team couldn't even prove that old adage about wisdom accompanying age since we only managed to finish second. Granted, the team that finished first was comprised of Clancy Dubos and Bobby Jindal and we already know that they have a virtual monopoly on all things "Gen-X" so we can't feel all that bad, I suppose. Maybe next time if Jindal will actually participate in a Gubernatorial forum instead of playing bar trivia, then I'll have a chance to win something.
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