As I
was browsing around the local pharmacy tonight I noticed that the song playing
on the in-store system was very slow, dull and sad. I can’t remember words but one line in the
song kept repeating. The line was
something like: “Why oh why is my heart
so sad?”
Over
and over again. Sort of like the old
Chinese water torture tactic.
“What
kind of music is this?” I thought to myself. I was not familiar with the song but I would describe
the musical genre as old, sad folk music with a twist of funeral dirge.
I
chuckled, thinking, “These poor people who work here have to listen to this
stuff?”
A clerk
at the cosmetics counter noticed my chuckling along with my wise-guy grin and
she said, “What’s so funny?”
Referring
to the music I said, “What kind of song is this?”
She
laughed, shaking her head and saying, “I don’t know. It’s terrible, isn’t it?”
I said,
“I hope you don’t have to listen to this kind of sad music all day.”
She
laughed again.
“Is
this music on some type of loop so that you have to listen to that song a bunch
of times throughout your shift?” I asked her.
She
said, “I work at another store and ‘What’s New Pussycat?’ plays a bunch of
times during my shift.”
I said,
“First of all, there should be a law against playing the song ‘What’s New
Pussycat?’ more than once a day and second, there should be some type of rule
against torturing your employees.”
We both
laughed again. Fortunately, I was able
to pay for my stuff and leave. But the crummy
music? It kept playing…
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