Humming a little tune

Favorite Music. Don't you just hate when you're filling out a checklist and one of the questions is something like: what's your favorite music? I will usually put in something trite, an answer to fill in the blank, and then it falls pitifully short of what you really think about when you're thinking about music. I'm also finding that in my advancing years, I'm not as readily available to just spout out a quick answer like that. Like just recently, one of the answers to one of those checklists was : What's your favorite Disney movie? And being a dyed-in-the-wool Southern Californian born and raised, I adore Disney, Disneyland, and everything Walt. Yet, for the life of me, I couldn't even quote a single Disney film, much less remember one that I would call my favorite. When you're a kid and someone asks about a favorite, such as ice cream flavor, it's easy to blurt out one. Chocolate. I'm thinking it's easier for those simpler folk with less experience to recall things because there are less items being filed in the grey matter. Their dewey-decimal system only goes up to 3. As you age, more experiences equate to a bigger, more advanced filing center, and now you're having to cross reference and microfische just to sort through the myriad of data. And flavors. So in answer to a seemingly innocent question, please give us mature folk a little while to answer, we may just be pondering the many worthy possible explanations. Or, we might not have heard you. Oh, and guys? If we're on a first date, please don't ask an interview question like that. Unless of course, you're trying to let me know the level of date you're used to. I'll make sure your question is dismissed as quickly as you are.

Oh, and for those of you wondering? My favorite music is Country.