Singing Strangers

A couple of nights ago I was in the store grabbing some last minute things for supper.  An old, familiar song came over the speaker and I started to half sing, half hum quietly.  I’m browsing the shelves, singing and  minding my own business. I turn and head up the next aisle and that is when I hear it.  The man at the end of the aisle is also singing the song.  As I get closer to him he does not back off of his song or shy away from singing out loud.  Hmm.  What the heck?  I continue to sing too.  So here we are, looking for gravy mix and singing a duet.  We turn and go our separate ways, but I am sure we both sang the song until the end.  Isn’t there something strange about singing strangers?

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Livin’ On A Prayer

 If you know me, you know I love music.  You also know I listen to a few things I wouldn’t let Chelsea listen to (Meatloaf, for example).  I know people have different musical tastes and as long as I don’t have to listen to Helmut Lotti, I’m OK if you do.   I’m not OK if you are not considerate about it.  I have an iPod and I don’t force you to listen to Bon Jovi, Meatloaf, Dr. Hook, Billy Joel, John Cougar or the B-52s (yes, all on my iPod).  Which brings me to the reason for this post.  

We attended a soccer game a couple of weeks ago and heard the raunchiest music ever.  The home team had an entire hour of trashy, foul language warm up music.  One of their team members climbed up to the press-box and palyed it for all of the world to hear.  It was so loud we couldn’t talk and the words were so filthy I can’t repeat them. 

After talking to some other soccer parents, I found out that this school was one of two private, Christian schools in town blasting this junk during warm up.  Now I know there are other songs out there.  Why can’t they use the theme from Rocky?  Or Eye of the Tiger?  I asked Chelsea if she had any ideas for warm up songs and after considering her team’s record, she said …

Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer”.     That’s my girl !!!