Here’s a big, new entry into my you-know-you’re-getting-old file.
Yes, it tops the fact that last time through the Mickey D’s drive-in during breakfast hours, I ordered oatmeal.
A morning news show just broadcast a YouTube clip from venerable game show “The Price Is Right” that’s gaining much traction.
It was so shocking that I had to go look it up for myself. The big CBS moment starts with host Drew Carey calling a contestant by the name of Premal on down to bidding row.
And the purple-shirted Premal gets hoisted up by fellow audience members and crowd-surfs his way to the front of the theater.
Yup. Crowd-surfing has made it to the decidedly middle-of-the-road weekday game show.
Now, in the first decade of this century, my dear wife Karen and I made it into the LA theater to witness a taping of “The Price Is Right” live and in person. True enough, decidedly hipper Carey had yet to replace oldie-but-goodie Bob Barker as host, but still … it did not look like a concert moment was ready to break out when the cameras rolled.
What next? A mosh pit on the way up to contestants’ row?