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So this happened last week… driving from South Dakota (mountain time zone) to Wisconsin (central time zone). This is a 12-hour journey so had the kids request music from Spotify to make the journey less boring. Daughter asked for Summer of 69. Wouldn’t have been my choice but whatever. Put it off for a bit as can’t stand that song. Anyway, finally play it for her and the line “the times are a changin” hits at the exact moment we pass a road sign saying “you are now entering Central time zone”
Of all the songs and all the lyrics, what are the chances of that happening?
I can't remember the exact song but I was once travelling in a car where we were listening on a CD (probably actually a tape at that time) and for some reason we switched to the radio and it was the same song at pretty much the same point in the song!
I can't remember the exact song but I was once travelling in a car where we were listening on a CD (probably actually a tape at that time) and for some reason we switched to the radio and it was the same song at pretty much the same point in the song!
I was in the car once with someone from Narfolk.
I turned the radio on and a song started playing and the bloke from Norfolk wanted to stop and check if the band playing the song were ok cos "'at must be a squeeze for 'em under da bonnet boy, cos its where the horses what makes the box go, iniit'
....Southend, in my youth, middle of the night, probably been to Tots or some other terrible place.
My mate was driving (sober, but showing off), lost control, hit the central reservation and the car ended up on it's roof.
As we worked out that we were all OK, we realised that the song playing on the tape deck (ha!) was Bad Moon Rising by CCR and specifically the line "Hope you got your things together, hope you're quite prepared to die".
Scared the crap out of me.
True story.
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I was once in a car on the way back from..... on 15:53 - Aug 11 with 1479 views
I was once in a car on the way back from..... on 15:39 - Aug 11 by Bloots
....Southend, in my youth, middle of the night, probably been to Tots or some other terrible place.
My mate was driving (sober, but showing off), lost control, hit the central reservation and the car ended up on it's roof.
As we worked out that we were all OK, we realised that the song playing on the tape deck (ha!) was Bad Moon Rising by CCR and specifically the line "Hope you got your things together, hope you're quite prepared to die".
Scared the crap out of me.
True story.
See, this stuff means something. I don’t know what. But it’s something.
I was once in a car on the way back from..... on 15:53 - Aug 11 by Illinoisblue
See, this stuff means something. I don’t know what. But it’s something.
On a slightly related note, once, when I was a kid I was reading a book in bed before I put my light out to go to sleep. As I finished the chapter I saw that the next chapter was entitled 'A Face At The Window'. I stupidly decided to inch open the curtains, and there was my cat staring in at me from outside. Scared the living daylights out of me!
I was once in a car on the way back from..... on 16:15 - Aug 11 by Fixed_It
On a slightly related note, once, when I was a kid I was reading a book in bed before I put my light out to go to sleep. As I finished the chapter I saw that the next chapter was entitled 'A Face At The Window'. I stupidly decided to inch open the curtains, and there was my cat staring in at me from outside. Scared the living daylights out of me!
See? Right there. There are forces at work which we cannot control.
I was once in a car on the way back from..... on 15:39 - Aug 11 by Bloots
....Southend, in my youth, middle of the night, probably been to Tots or some other terrible place.
My mate was driving (sober, but showing off), lost control, hit the central reservation and the car ended up on it's roof.
As we worked out that we were all OK, we realised that the song playing on the tape deck (ha!) was Bad Moon Rising by CCR and specifically the line "Hope you got your things together, hope you're quite prepared to die".
Scared the crap out of me.
True story.
I had a couple of small incidents in my green Micra within the space of three months as a new driver.
The first one involved hitting a pothole on a bend at night, before careening into a curb and popping both passenger side tyres.
The second was a queuey trip to the beach on a hot summer's day, where I overestimated the capability of my brakes and bumped into the back of someone at low speed.
Both times I was listening to the Stone Roses remixes album, and both times it was specifically this track:
That album does not get played in my car anymore, and I'm yet to have another incident.
"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
Few years ago was working in Liberia for an aid agency / Ngo. Shared a house with some co-workers including a dodgy Kenyan who saw himself as a bit of a player. One Sunday morning I came down for breakie to be met by two "working ladies" sat in the living room who when I enquired what brought them to the house, explained they were friends of Karanga, my colleague.
After a while I politely asked them to leave, but 15 mins later it kicks off at the gate. I popped out to see what the hassle was and the gate boy explains "Mr Lagos, the 2 ladies you asked to leave are not happy, they havent been paid for their services"
So I found Karanga and despite his protests insist he settles the ladies, "They are prostitutes, they give you services, you pay them, that's how it works".
Next day, Monday morning and we are going to work and fair to say there is tension in the air over the previous days histrionics. 6 of us load into the back of a van and to break the akward silence I ask the driver to put the radio on, which he does.
Shaggy's Mr Lover lover comes on and Karanga is forever known as "Shagger Karanga" there on in :-)
*we did a disciplinary that day, and he claimed he hadn't known they were working girls.
I asked "Karanga, you are older than me, greyer than me, fatter than me and balder than me...do women often double up on you?"
He got a final written for breaking security protocols.
Few years ago was working in Liberia for an aid agency / Ngo. Shared a house with some co-workers including a dodgy Kenyan who saw himself as a bit of a player. One Sunday morning I came down for breakie to be met by two "working ladies" sat in the living room who when I enquired what brought them to the house, explained they were friends of Karanga, my colleague.
After a while I politely asked them to leave, but 15 mins later it kicks off at the gate. I popped out to see what the hassle was and the gate boy explains "Mr Lagos, the 2 ladies you asked to leave are not happy, they havent been paid for their services"
So I found Karanga and despite his protests insist he settles the ladies, "They are prostitutes, they give you services, you pay them, that's how it works".
Next day, Monday morning and we are going to work and fair to say there is tension in the air over the previous days histrionics. 6 of us load into the back of a van and to break the akward silence I ask the driver to put the radio on, which he does.
Shaggy's Mr Lover lover comes on and Karanga is forever known as "Shagger Karanga" there on in :-)
*we did a disciplinary that day, and he claimed he hadn't known they were working girls.
I asked "Karanga, you are older than me, greyer than me, fatter than me and balder than me...do women often double up on you?"
He got a final written for breaking security protocols.
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