Last Night's Conversation

My wife had a song stuck in her head from the radio and started singing, "Shorty's like a melody in my head...". My 20 years old daughter interrupted her, "It's Shawte". Daya looked surprised and asked, "It's not shorty, cause I'm short and I like shorty". "Yeah, but it's shawte, S-H-A-W-T-E, shawte. It means girlfriend". "Really?" Daya asked. "Yep.", Emma said and continued, "You know what they say today, Old man and Old lady for boyfriend and girlfriend!" I was pleasantly surprised and added, "Hey that's what we said when I was a teen in the 70s". Daya looked up from a magazine at me and interrupted with "Don't even think about.", pasued and then continued, "You can call me boss."