Sharing a Moment with Tough Guys in the Turn Lane
Today is the kind of beautiful spring day you roll down the car windows and crank the music. That's what I did on the way to run a quick errand this morning. The truck next to me at a traffic light had the same idea. It was a big yeah-it's-got-a-hemi Dodge with shiny rims and a sticker in the back window of Calvin watering a rock. The two in the cab looked about like what you would expect in that kind of ride — tough guys to the core. With their uniform shirts and bearded faces, I'd say they were carpooling to a place where the bigger, tougher trucks for the day's job are parked.
Our radios were competing, so I turned mine down. I just hate it when I get caught listening to something embarrassing because I wasn't paying attention to what my radio might be broadcasting about me. At that moment, the station I had absently tuned to was playing "Shadow Dancer." Uh-huh, I was blaring the Bee Gees. Awesome. I would have been mortified if one of my lane neighbors had noticed, but these guys were too distracted by whatever worries them to pay attention to their own radio, much less mine. That's why I was so thrilled to be included in their moment. As music from the truck seeped into my car, I wish I could say I saw one of them swaying. But I can't. They both looked stone-faced ahead drinking 7-11 coffee. Just listening to a little Air Supply. Yes, it may have been the Monday morning commute, but we all know that "Even the Nights Are Better."
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Air Supply? Yuck. I think I would have had to drown that out with the Bros Gibb.
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No way -- disco is not a better soundtrack for that scene than a tune children of the 80's would've couples skated to. Uh-uh.
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Now that's stuck in my head...just when I got Journey out of it.
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Try Captain and Tenille's "Do That To Me One More Time." That'll get that other obnoxious earworm to go away.
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It's really worse than you think. You were listening to Andy Gibb, younger brother of the Bee Gees.
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Oh, that's not worse... I was thinking that listening to the Bee Gees didn't make me sound like enough of a tool. Thanks for making my story better. Please contribute anytime!
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