Wild Card/Thursday 9.1.16

So I’m ordering the 2-for-$10 Whopper meal special at Burger King Wednesday evening when a female voice concludes the interaction by saying, “Groovy.” (Yeah, I was taking Mrs. O out on a hot date, culminating with a walk along the waterfront.) The only person I know who still says “groovy” on occasion is Jason Lowe, the associate pastor at my church. Curious, I pulled up to the window to pay and asked the twentysomething woman with a magenta stripe in her hair where she’d learned to say, “groovy,” explaining that I liked the expression. It took me back to my formative years in the 1960s when “groovy,” “far out,” “right on,” etc., were slang phrases. She said she’d picked it up from a co-worker at a burger joint in Oregon. I thanked her for brightening my day with an old memory (as well as her good service). How about you? Are there still slang words you use from your teen/early adult years? You can answer that question or start your own thread with this Wild Card …