I agree, by the time, you’ve heard ‘Silver Bells’ (or any other carol) sung by 20 different artists repeatedly for a month and a half BEFORE the actual day, it is enough to put you into the local ‘rubber room’ ! ! ! !
Back when I was in college, I worked part-time at a fast food chain named for a famous actor/country singer. Usually the sound system played instrumental versions of country classics, which was fine. But at Christmas we had to stick to just one tape playing badly “country-styled” versions of Christmas carols. Fake Southern accents, too much vibrato, steel guitars all over the place. On a ninety minute loop. For six weeks. I got REALLY good at tuning it out. And that means I can tune out background music basically anywhere now. Feels like a superpower.
A local supermarket used to have a gumball machine that had a rooster that constantly crowed. It would drive me crazy waiting in line. I asked the checkout person how they could stand it. They said they got used to it and didn’t hear it after a while. Whoever came up with it was a sadist.
Lucy Rudy about 7 hours ago
That’s why I’m done before Thanksgiving. I only go to smaller grocery stores in December that don’t sell much more than food.
'IndyMan' about 3 hours ago
I agree, by the time, you’ve heard ‘Silver Bells’ (or any other carol) sung by 20 different artists repeatedly for a month and a half BEFORE the actual day, it is enough to put you into the local ‘rubber room’ ! ! ! !
flodnak about 3 hours ago
Back when I was in college, I worked part-time at a fast food chain named for a famous actor/country singer. Usually the sound system played instrumental versions of country classics, which was fine. But at Christmas we had to stick to just one tape playing badly “country-styled” versions of Christmas carols. Fake Southern accents, too much vibrato, steel guitars all over the place. On a ninety minute loop. For six weeks. I got REALLY good at tuning it out. And that means I can tune out background music basically anywhere now. Feels like a superpower.
crabbyred about 2 hours ago
Mom warned her about the music.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 1 hour ago
A local supermarket used to have a gumball machine that had a rooster that constantly crowed. It would drive me crazy waiting in line. I asked the checkout person how they could stand it. They said they got used to it and didn’t hear it after a while. Whoever came up with it was a sadist.