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Singalonga freak
Aug. 27th, 2005 02:25 pmUsually in life, if there's any one person bound to be plugged in to some sort of personal music player, it's yours truly. I've been addicted to them ever since an uncle bought me a walkman in my later childhood. My Things In My Pocket system has always been: purse in one, walkman/personal CD player/iPod and mobile in t'other. My iPod is especially good, since a, I don't have to carry around a bag with used batteries and tapes/CDs in and b,I have room for that, my mobile, car keys and various other bits of junk in even a small pocket.
I usually wear said equipment when out of the house alone - shopping, walking to work/the gym etc. It makes the walk more fun, and it's a great excuse for ignoring beggars, market researchers or vague aquaintances that I really don't like enough to hold a stilted conversation in the street with. I do, however, get the occasional funny look. I have a horrible feeling that I'm could be an unconcious singalonger.
Reason for this train of thought is that Hubby has just got his very own little iPod (he won it, for being so terribly clever) and likes to listen to it while he washes up (which he is doing now - we have no clean mugs). He is (always has been) a fragmentory singalonger. Every so often, he will join in with a single line of song, and then go silent again. This never bothered me when it was to the radio in the kitchen, but when he's the only one that can hear the music, the odd line or two being sung quietly, out of context, is... well, it's creepy. Do I do this? Do complete strangers walk past me and hear me softly sing 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo' or 'I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter?' or, worse, a little bit of Mozart's Requiem - 'Requiem eternam de ta morte eterna...'
Hmm. maybe I should make an effort to singalonga more often. Maybe people would be a little more hesitant about ambling into me or brainlessly blocking my way.
I usually wear said equipment when out of the house alone - shopping, walking to work/the gym etc. It makes the walk more fun, and it's a great excuse for ignoring beggars, market researchers or vague aquaintances that I really don't like enough to hold a stilted conversation in the street with. I do, however, get the occasional funny look. I have a horrible feeling that I'm could be an unconcious singalonger.
Reason for this train of thought is that Hubby has just got his very own little iPod (he won it, for being so terribly clever) and likes to listen to it while he washes up (which he is doing now - we have no clean mugs). He is (always has been) a fragmentory singalonger. Every so often, he will join in with a single line of song, and then go silent again. This never bothered me when it was to the radio in the kitchen, but when he's the only one that can hear the music, the odd line or two being sung quietly, out of context, is... well, it's creepy. Do I do this? Do complete strangers walk past me and hear me softly sing 'I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo' or 'I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter?' or, worse, a little bit of Mozart's Requiem - 'Requiem eternam de ta morte eterna...'
Hmm. maybe I should make an effort to singalonga more often. Maybe people would be a little more hesitant about ambling into me or brainlessly blocking my way.
