Two new annoyances

[palinurus]

Annoyance #1

Leaving straw hats on parcel shelves: Increasing numbers of drivers are doing this, presumably to let following drivers/ their neighbours etc. know that their daughter goes to an expensive school.

Annoyance#2

OK, this wasn't really a commuting annoyance. But it could be.

Yesterday I was out training (I'm still sort of embarrased to call it training, but that was the purpose of it), trying to get into a nice rhythm, like for a 25 mile TT. Trying to let the mind go blank and just focus on pedalling, as I do.

Then, from somewhere in the back of my mind came..

“Do the Huclebuck,
Do the hucklebuck”.

I think “NOOOOO!” try to blank it out.

Then a pause, it’s almost as if I’m taunting myself- it’s just that sort of length.

“if you don’t know how to do it
Then yr’ out of luck”

And I don’t know any other words (and I was aware of this right from the first line)

So its back to the start. And always with that pause in it.

I did get it under control eventually. But where do they come from? I haven't heard it (thank christ) in years. I mean, since I was a kid. Not just a couple of years or something.

This morning I had “I wanna be sedated”. Which you might think is better. It isn’t.

 

[BentMikey]

Annoyance no. 1 says more about you and your character than anything else, IMO!!

 

[515mm]

Palinurus - you poor bastard! I know exactly how you feel. I had 'Jailhouse Rock' on my "Swedeman" the other morning.



To the point where I had to sing it at full volume to get rid of it.



Not terminally embarrassing - I was on a bypass with the 60mph traffic at the time........(doing 25 m'self!)

 

[Maverick Goose]

My inner jukebox has a tendency to serve up BJ, Duran Duran and Spandau.....honey ah don't know where I'm going. lord knows where ah've been.... Sometimes I get something like Johnny Cash singing 'Hurt' though (VG for steep climbs....)

 

[flycatcher]

With you all the way on #1.

 

[yenrod]

Oh yeah Paul' i regularly sing (in the mind) how the lives going - usually, there is a tune that simply comes to mind if I aint got the mp3 player or radio which is hardly never as I have the mobile / music on all the time EVEN in work

 

[73inch]

Then, from somewhere in the back of my mind came..

“Do the Huclebuck,
Do the hucklebuck”.

I think “NOOOOO!” try to blank it out.

Then a pause, it’s almost as if I’m taunting myself- it’s just that sort of length.

“if you don’t know how to do it
Then yr’ out of luck”

And I don’t know any other words (and I was aware of this right from the first line)

"A little bit of that, a little bit of this,
if you don't know how to do it, ask my little sis"


I have similar difficulties. For some reason when I am heading south around the Elephant and Castle roundabout "Uptown Girl" pops into my head, and when I ride up up Battersea Rise its "Boomshakalak" by Apache Indian. I am still inventing words which describe how much I hate these two songs.

 

[BentMikey]

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?" There, does that one do it for you?

 

[Twenty Inch]

Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. All the time, everywhere.

 

[515mm]

"Mr Boombastic" by Shaggy on the start of this morning's ride - I was feeling very pleased with myself - I've put a new chain on (the bike before you ask) and it feels sooooooo dreamy smooth. #sigh# It feels just like it did when it was new......

 

[gary r]

dont mess with tutu!!
or even worse D.I.S.C.O

 

[John the Monkey]

Pulp's "Disco 2000". Not too bad for me, but probably a bit unnerving for the pedestrians suddenly hearing "Let's all meet up in the year 2000" out of nowhere.

 

[buggi]

... and this is why i wear my ipod

 

[ChrisKH]

Punk seems to figure quite highly on my 'zone out' charts. 'Ever fallen in love' by the Buzzcocks for example.

Or something long and pretentious like 'Suppers Ready'. I do tend to fall off during the drum solos though.

 

[GrahamG]

I like to sing Every Time I Die songs (real noisy hardcore guitar & shout) in a lounge crooner style.