As I turned onto the main road to head to Taco Cabana, the drum and bass riff came out of the radio. I was immediately transported back to 1987. I rolled the windows down, turned the volume up to 11 and turned the AC off. The synthesizer kicked in, and the singer began singing:
A modern day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride
Of course, the song is Tom Sawyer by the Canadian phenomenon Rush, from 1987.
I just find it amazing how less than 10 seconds of a song can emotionally and psychologically transport me to a time over 20 years in the past. It made me painfully aware of myself, and I didn't really even care. Yeah, I'm a 47 year old nerd, driving in a Chevy truck, but for those few seconds, I was 20 years old, and cruising down Ocean Drive in Corpus Christi, at it was 1am on a Friday night / Saturday morning.
It was a very nostalgic moment, that was over the second I was in the line to order dinner, because I don't want anybody to hear me blasting my old-man music.
