Today’s Scintilla prompt goes a little something like this:
Talk about a time when you were driving and you sang in the
car, all alone. Why do you remember this song and that stretch of road?
First off, let me just say that the great tragedy of my life
is that I have a terrible – truly awful – singing voice. Me! A person who loves
musical theater and is quite sure I would be rather famous at this point were
it not for the fact that I am totally tone deaf.
That said, I do enjoy singing. Very much. And I can sing the
hell out of any showtune or song on the radio within the confines of my car.
Turn the radio up loud enough and you can’t hear my voice at all, which is really best for everyone.
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, I worked for my parents’
business (Dairy Queen), for many summers over high school and college. I drove
the same 8 miles from our house to DQ thousands of times, I’m sure. Sometimes
in my my mother’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, sometimes in my father’s Buick LeSabre, and sometimes in the car my brother and I shared for a couple of years,
a Pontiac Sunbird. Ah yes.
Although during those years I was primarily a fan of rock
music (still am – although not of the hair band variety anymore) I would listen
to pop every now and then. One sunny summer day I was making my way to work in my super-stylish polyester DQ uniform,
singing at the top of my lungs to Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On,” which was quite
the hit back in 1990. As I was singing along – someday somebody’s gonna make you wanna turn around and say
goodbyeeee - I looked in my rearview
mirror, and to this day, I laugh when I remember what I saw.
There was a woman singing the same song, totally giving it
her all. Hand gestures and everything. Something about seeing her lips move to
the same song I was playing in my car just seemed hilarious to me – and would
have been a good reminder, had I thought of it, that instead of laughing maybe I should realize that’s
most likely what I look like to other
people when I’m driving. (This still holds today.)
There’s just something about that song, I guess…..
4 comments:
YES!! This has happened to me!! And it's always funny. And who cares what you sound like? Sing out. Sing loud. And roll down the window.
That cracks me up when something like that happens. I sing in the car all of the time. Now, my daughter does it, too! :)
I never consider that I don't look absolutely awesome when I am singing in minivan ... how could I not? I mean, I SOUND awesome. Right?
One of the best things about driving around...LOVE this!
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