While in the grocery store yesterday: There must have been some sort of mix-up. The music they had playing was stuff from when I was a teenager. The rubes. Everyone knows grocery stores are supposed to play music for their old customers. Instead, they had stuff from my own adolesence. When they do this it sort makes me feel as if… I…
Oh no!
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HAW HAW!
I know exactly what you mean… *sigh*
My music has become “classic” a long time ago… it’s been Musak’d for a long time too.. wait til you hear stuff that you think is just noise and that they should turn it down… and it’s just the lame soft-rock of the time.