again my reference points are askew

so maria, kyle and i were dining last night at bite when maria mentioned that she saw a girl roughly her age carrying a kid in one of those baby bjorn things. the catch was that the kid was like two or three and therefor too old to be carried in this manner. obviously this lead to me thinking about someone carrying a child that is ridiculously too old (nothing too clever in that train of thought). the thing is, the first, very first, image that popped into my head was a 40-something chomping on a cigar reading playboy. it cracked my shit up (ask maria, i was tickled by my own joke again). kyle astutely pointed out the quite 50's era nature of this image. it's true. my brain went for a totally out of date reference rather than a modern one. in the shower just now i realized how easily i could have conjured up a teenager smoking pot and playing a nintendo ds (those are the portable ones, right?). or one reading on the road or tom robbins. or studying for the SAT (that was my favorite post-original idea one). there are a plethora of scenarios that would fit into this modern world. but i came up with a sleazy 50's businessman. why is this not shocking? because i also sat in front of my roommate's playstation 2 the other day like it was the monolith from 2001 trying to figure out how to turn it on. i failed. now he has a playstation 3 and i was shown how to wave my hand over the on/off sensor. but i tried to play a cd this morning and what i still call the joystick would not work for me. it's like it knew my limitations and choose to not let me get too far in over my head. i'm not necessarily a techno-phobe per se. i just have little use for most of it. here are three examples of me diving into modern culture head first: 1) cell phone...i actually see no point in a landline anymore. that is, unless they invent one that receives texts. 2) netflix...i never thought i really wanted to see movies that much. but there are hundreds on my queue. 3) luffa (sp?)..i really like this more than a wash cloth. scratchy. nice. i'm sure there are more but those are the big 3. good day