Funny thing happened in the lunch line today

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I work in a large business district. There’s just tons and tons of office buildings, so around noon, business people, mostly men in ties, just pour into the cafes. The best cafe on this block is awkwardly shaped (triangular-ish) but people love it there, so there’s often a tightly packed line.

This particular place had the radio on one of those “classic hit” stations that’s designed to play generic stations that no one in the workplace particularly objects to. First comes Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’”. People in the line kinda start mumbling a line here and there. Some bob their heads to the beat.

Then comes the ultimate sing-along song, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. That’s when everyone starts noticing that everyone else is jamming to it. Remember, we’re all about 2 inches from the guy in front of us. So then forms a little notice-me-but-don’t-notice-me jam session. You know everyone just wants to rock out but we’re still in business mode, so it’s all tempered. Some sort of mild comraderie forms amongst the line. We’re all smiling and awaiting the next song, wondering what we’re going to jam to next.

Did I mention we’re a bunch of guys packed into a small space?

Then I hear the distinctive guitar intro- boow-wowow-Wow. Oh no. “I’ve been feelin’ dryyyy, baa-by.” Oh, God. “Tried to hold back this feelin’, for soooo long.” Dead silence. Everyone holds still and stares at the floor. A random throat clears. “Let’s get it ooooon. AAAAWWWW yeah…” Some guy accidentally bumps another, both recoil.

By the third verse, someone tries to be funny: “I feel awkward.” Survey says…not funny. Now it’s just more awkward. Thanks a lot, dude.

Marvin Gaye: Making lunchtime weird since…well, since today.

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Riding in my SIL’s car when Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer comes on the radio. She starts turning the steering wheel to the chorus. I notice that two cars ahead of us are moving the exact same way.

Hilarity ensued.

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“I’ve been really trying, baby/ Trying to…”

Marvin was corny but not quite that corny.

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It sounds like you guys should play Queen all day.

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A few years ago, a couple glasses of wine into a Passover seder, we got to a part in the Haggadah about how we have to preserve the traditions of the Jewish people generation unto generation. At which point, the guy reading paused and said: "and that’s because…

…I believe the children are our future…"

And everyone at the seder joined in. We sang the whole fucking song.

When we got to the end, we all looked around, confused. It was like being in a really bad, drunken musical.

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:o:D I’m laughing at myself right now. “Did I really write that?” My version…doesn’t even make sense.

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I used to drive my daughter, her cousin, and a couple of her friends to their elementary and then their middle school. The AC in my car didn’t work very well at the time, so I usually had the window halfway down. The cassette player in the car DID work very well, and I frequently embarrassed my daughter by singing along to whatever. I frequently played show tunes…including Rocky Horror.

Yes, I was a horrible mother at times.