Monday, September 20, 2004

Safeway torture

There's this song they play on the Safeway sound system. I have no idea what it's called , but I suspect it's "Rollin'" or something, because the guy in the song keeps saying it over and over again. You'd recognize it if you heard it - it's got whistling and sax in it and a guy that's trying (and failing miserably) to sound like Elvis.

Anyway, I must have RFID tags buried in my clothes, because like clockwork, almost every time I walk into a Safeway store, that freaking song starts to play. It happended yet again today and Darlene and I just look at each other and start cracking up. Of course, nobody in the store has any clue why we're laughing, so we look like a bunch of lunatics.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:40 PM

    Hey Karl,

    I hear what yer saying, every freakin' time I step thought those sliding doors, there's that song AGAIN.

    It's actually called "The Stroll", the Diamonds (I Think) recorded it 1st in 1957.

    Here are the lyrics:

    Come, let's stroll
    Stroll across the floor
    Come, let's stro-oh-oh-oll
    Stroll across the floor
    Now turn around, baby
    Let's stroll once more

    Feel so good
    Take me by my hand
    I feel so goo-ooh-ooh-ood
    Take me by my hand
    And let's go strolling
    In wonderland

    Strollin', , strollin' aah-huh-uh
    Rock and ro-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh-llin'
    Strollin'
    Well rock my so-oul
    How I love to stroll

    There's my love
    Strolling in the door
    There's my lo-o-o-ove
    Strolling in the door
    Baby, let's go strolling
    By the candy store

    Anyway, my 2 cents.
    Cheers!
    Jeff (CA5)

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  2. I don't know what's scarier Jeff - the fact that it happens to you too, or the fact that you found the lyrics to the song to torment me some more...

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  3. Anonymous7:29 AM

    Well Karl,

    This is the music of my parents generation. This is the type of music I used to hear ALOT as a kid, explains a little more about me now, doesn't it?

    Keep on "strollin'" :)
    J.

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