A few years ago, my squad was dispatched on a “man down, CPR in progress” call. Upon arrival at the scene, we met with two paramedics (one dispatched with us, the other was in the area). We loaded the patient into the ambulance, and I climbed into the back with both medics, my partner got behind the wheel, and we started hauling ass to the hospital.
Partway there, as I’m doing chest compressions, and the medics are working their magic, a cell phone starts going off. It can be a little loud and chaotic in the back of an ambulance, but at a natural lull in the noise, this voice starts singing:
You know, this song is referenced in the extended version of the Stephen King novel The Stand by “The Kid.” And I figured the song existed, but I never had confirmation of it until this post.
In the early 1980s, when I lived in a college dorm, the guys in the room immediately below us liked to play that several times a day, and sometimes at night, also at ear-splitting volume.
I have honestly never heard it anywhere else, before or since.
The one saving grace in that whole incident: the kids were so hopped up on sugary cake and punch and so involved in being pirates and lobbing cannonballs (duck pin balls) at each other that not many people noticed the tune.
I’m sure that’s what my dentist’s office has, typical lite pop. Except the last two times I’ve been in, “The Stroke” made its way into the rotation. Seems a little raunchy for that kind of station!
My husband and I once held a poll among our Facebook friends to find the most inappropriate song for an ice cream truck to play. It had to be not only inappropriate but offensive. We came up with stuff like “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon.”
[El-P]
*Get running
Start pumping your bunions, I’m coming
I’m the dumbest, who flamethrow your function to Funyuns Flame your crew quicker than Trump fucks his youngest
Now face the flame, fuckers, your fame and fate’s done with
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