The DU Lounge

It's the local watering hole of my small township of less than 400 people and it's filled with neighborhood gossip, so for the most part I stay away from it. Except in the summer when out of state vacationers wander in from local campgrounds - it's nice to see new faces and make new friends.

When I walked in the conversation was about music groups so I mentioned a number of them I'd seen while growing up in Chicago, and regretted not being able to score tickets to see the Beatles when they played the International Amphitheater.

A twenty-something young man never heard of the Beatles, so I told him their names. He'd heard of John Lennon and then said "You mean Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

You could have heard a pin drop.