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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
EPISODE 48: Automobile Idol
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I love to sing in the car. In my car, when I'm alone, with the windows rolled up.
That said, I need to tell you that I CAN NOT SING!!!!!
Actually just saying that I can not sing is being kind.
So I do not sing when other people are around. However if someone else in my car starts singing I give them a minute or so to find out if they are any good. If they sound OK, I just let them go. If they are not good singers I simply start singing along with them. Without exception they all stop singing - almost immediately. But then I have to live with the horrified looks on their faces.
Whistling, however will get you thrown out of my car. I will give a person one polite, if slightly terse, warning. Usually along the lines of:
"I find whistling, any whistling, to be painful. To my ears, whistling sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard. Please do not whistle when I am within hearing distance."
If they start whistling again, I pull over to the side of the road and tell them "Stop whistling or get out!"
Amazingly enough fingernails on a chalkboard don't bother me. But I have seen how other people respond to it and it seems to me to be similar to how I feel when I hear whistling.
This is a bad enough problem that I have quit jobs when I had to work with coworkers who would not stop whistling and the boss would not allow me to wear headphones to drown them out.
I have walked out of stores and left carts full of groceries in line when a person in line near me would not stop whistling when I asked them "Would you please stop whistling?"
So I need your opinion, should I get a small chalkboard to carry around so when people around me start whistling I can start scratching or should I just start singing?
Ha! Always great content from our friend David!
I'll make sure to keep it down!
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