That Babe is Stylin'

I have a question for you, my faithful blog followers. What is the most interesting teenage slang you've heard recently? I've been hanging out with a 16-year-old lately and I must admit I can't follow the conversation half the time. Slowly, painfully, my friend is educating me about how the phat kids talk. I can't imagine any way in which this skill could be useful to me, unless I write a character who says things like, "Air Force is Stylin'" and "I was too busy with all the locomotion."

A few weeks ago we were at the mall. She launched into a very complicated story about pimping the Air Force. Huh? I nodded my head knowingly through the first 15 minutes of this discussion. When she asked me for my opinion on the matter, I first took a moment to suppress my shock that she cared what I thought, and then I grudgingly admitted I had no idea what she was talking about.

Sneakers. Air Force is a type of sneaker. Apparently they are stylin' and guys who really pimp wear them. Apparently, the complicated conversation had to do with appropriate fashion etiquette.

You can't make this stuff up. I must figure out how to add a teenager into my next book because I can't let it go to waste.