I'm old!

January 7th again... Leona's 10th birthday this year.
- "So Leona, what's the theme for the birthday party?"
- "I want a disco party!"
Ooops, I smell trouble....
"And I'd like to invite the whole class, disco music, dancefloor, sodas, a tent in the garden; well, you know... a disco party!"
Ooops, definitely trouble!
But after all it's her first double-digit birthday, so let's get it organised :-)

Anita is providing one of her beautiful tents, dance floor and lighting, the place looks stunning. I add a generator, food, two dozens of soda bottles, my hi-fi system and ... music. Music? Eh? What music? My playlists all end somewhere in the 90s. But that's not really what they play on the radio these days, is it? Somebody help! The night before I manage to get hold of about 100 current MP3s, US Charts and local Ugandan Reggae, Hip Hop and R&B and I listen to the songs and cram their titles until 2am.
NExt day at 4pm the party slowly takes off but at around 6pm we've already quite some dancing going on. After fish fingers, buns and sausages the kids are competing in a dance and best-dressed-girl / best dressed-boy contest.
And then... the dance floor is open! Wow... and how they dance. I'm playing all those songs I listed the night before, but soon I've exhausted my playlist. Anyway, I'll just play some of my cool 80s and 90s hits. The moment I put the first song on - the dance floor is empty and I have a bunch of kids heading towards me demanding: "Ohhh, do you also have some music which is not classic? You know, something modern?"
WHAT??? My cool hits are "classics?" OMG, I'm getting old, so old. Time to freshen up! And if I do really well, I might stand a chance to be taken out by my daughter when she's 15 :-/
But well, fortunately I have plenty of enthusiastic advisers and we find more stuff to play and the party finishes with a bunch of tired and happy disco kings and queens...