Their idea of roughing it is doing without speed dial. We always knew when it was a social night, because we'd see the girls walk to the mess hall with their hair rolled high in curlers and covered with rubberized shower caps that were attached by nozzles to portable hair dryers the size of a briefcase. The air would flow in, the shower cap would fill up, and the girl's head would look like a balloon ready to take off over the English Channel for France. Aqua Velva is so strong that when we put it on in the summer of 1961, Yuri Gagarin could have smelled us. How about oldies, I said.
Oldies are for babies.
Just six months ago she loved oldies. I saw a change coming a couple of months back when my daughter started singing along with Coolio. Coolio is a rapper whose hair is done in braids that look like the rabbit ears on a 1962 Magnavox. I asked her, incredulous. I listened all the way through, and I couldn't understand much.