A visit to Berkeley is no visit at all without a Top Dog. And inside this joint it is exactly the same.
I promised Travis that I would never not even once during his graduation weekend ever utter the phrase ‘back when I was in Berkeley’ and I did keep my word. There is however an expression I heard many times from different people and under unexpected circumstances, which is ‘back in the day’. As in ‘this place is exactly the same as it was back in the day’ and ‘back in the day you still couldn’t find a place to park’ and ‘oh, I heard you were here back in the day’.
I’m thinking that when they are speaking about back-in-the-day it is like they are speaking about the Hoover administration – so long ago the details hardly matter.