Shook the Spot

AT LEAST YOU COULD SAY "MAN DATE" FIVE TIMES FAST

As a 21-year-old whose out of school, Shook's only health insurance at the moment is thanks to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, which forces Aetna to continue covering me (at a hefty price) for 18 months or until I go back to school and become a bonafide dependent again. So I was intrigued to see a piece in tomorrow's Times about 20-somethings who remain on their parents' health-care plans. The author: Jenny 8. Lee. So, naturally, it wasn't far into the article before a new, bogus, prickly trend-term was invented . . .

Not only are children moving back home after college and asking Mom and Dad for monthly subsidies, but in a growing number of states children can now stay on their parents’ health insurance plans well into their 20’s.

Call it another example of adultescence.

You can't even pronounce that shit!