Never Feed Them After Midnight

We have a whole lot of dental work to look forward to. And by we, I mean HH6 (no clever new nickname, she's the boss). Seeing how she hates dentists, and has never had good experiences with them, she's elected to use sedation dentistry for all her teethy needs. That being the case, we went to the dentist today for the initial consult, etc.

Among the many bits of thou shalt and thou shalt not information given was this little gem:

"No food or drink after midnight prior to your appointment."

Sitting there in the consultation office with Butters bouncing on my knee, I told the wife "We have to treat you like a Mogwai." This failed to elicit any type of response so I did as I normally do and chalked it up to her not hearing me, or simply ignoring my pop culture reference.

So we finished the appointment, set up the date for the next one to truly get things going, and left for the confines of home. (But not before a detour to Steak n Shake for a delicious burger and a shake.) During the long drive home we talked about everything we'd just heard, I attempted to allay some of her fears, and she read over the "thou shalt/shalt not" list. She got back to the bit about "nothing after midnight" and, wanting to make certain that she heard me this time, I once again told her that she was getting the Mogwai treatment.

There was a pause.

"What's the Mogwai treatment?"

Four years, two months, and eleven days are all that separate my beautiful wife and I. Writer Chris Columbus brought his 1984 classic "Gremlins" to the screen on June 8, 1984. HH6 was three, I was seven. Despite these obstacles, one would think that sometime in the next decade or so she would've seen the iconic film pitting Zach Galligan, a young Corey Feldman, and the absolutely yummy Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High anyone?) against a band of malevolently mischievous little buggers. But no. She saw it once, and got in trouble with her mother over it for some odd reason.

So flash forward to today when I had to explain to the love of my wife just what in the hell a Mogwai was.

You know those moments where you realize how old you are? Yeah that was one of them.