Idle stuff
Sep. 30th, 2008 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofastolatOne of the stories I regularly read at the moment involves a rather rude monster. At one point in the story, he goes for a drive in his big red car, and sings a merry song along the way. "What song do you want him to sing?" I ask the children. We then sing the chosen song to teach it to the monster, and then the monster sings it in his own inimitable fashion. ("RAAAAH! RAAAGH! REEEEGH! RAAAAH!")
After about a hundred different renditions, the results are as follows:
- c. 50 percent: Twinkle twinkle little star
- c. 35 percent: Baa baa black sheep
- c. 10 percent: Row row row your boat
- c. 5 percent: One-offs - Wheels on the bus, Wind the bobbin up etc.
Today the monster was asked to sing the Mamma Mia soundtrack.
He didn't.
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Now, imagine that you're in a shop to buy two item, one costing 2.10 and one costing 1.05. You have the exact money already counted out in change in your hand. However, when you get to the front of the queue, the phone rings, and the check-out person (correctly choosing to continue serving you rather than put the phone first) spends the entire transaction shouting over to another assistant, trying to get her to come over and answer the phone. This so distracts her that she doesn't notice that the cheaper item hasn't scanned properly, and she asks you for only 2.10. What do you do?
[Poll #1269676]
(EDIT: Poll written because the shop assistant looked really taken aback when I owned up, and so did the other people in the queue, so I started wondering if I'd done something particularly unusual.)
Oh, and back to the subject of music: I think it should be illegal for any piece of music to include a siren sound effect. It is very distracting when driving. However, if I was a radio DJ, I would be rather tempted to recruit all my fellow radio DJs, so we all played the song at the same time, placed cameras at busy road junctions, and sat back and watched all the drivers look around anxiously en masse.
And, also: Songs that start "see the little..." and involve nosey-woseys and little feet are evil. They put claws into your brain and won't let go. *glares at the culprit*
After about a hundred different renditions, the results are as follows:
- c. 50 percent: Twinkle twinkle little star
- c. 35 percent: Baa baa black sheep
- c. 10 percent: Row row row your boat
- c. 5 percent: One-offs - Wheels on the bus, Wind the bobbin up etc.
Today the monster was asked to sing the Mamma Mia soundtrack.
He didn't.
__
Now, imagine that you're in a shop to buy two item, one costing 2.10 and one costing 1.05. You have the exact money already counted out in change in your hand. However, when you get to the front of the queue, the phone rings, and the check-out person (correctly choosing to continue serving you rather than put the phone first) spends the entire transaction shouting over to another assistant, trying to get her to come over and answer the phone. This so distracts her that she doesn't notice that the cheaper item hasn't scanned properly, and she asks you for only 2.10. What do you do?
[Poll #1269676]
(EDIT: Poll written because the shop assistant looked really taken aback when I owned up, and so did the other people in the queue, so I started wondering if I'd done something particularly unusual.)
Oh, and back to the subject of music: I think it should be illegal for any piece of music to include a siren sound effect. It is very distracting when driving. However, if I was a radio DJ, I would be rather tempted to recruit all my fellow radio DJs, so we all played the song at the same time, placed cameras at busy road junctions, and sat back and watched all the drivers look around anxiously en masse.
And, also: Songs that start "see the little..." and involve nosey-woseys and little feet are evil. They put claws into your brain and won't let go. *glares at the culprit*
