Returning to Normalish
In recent years, Xander has developed a habit of becoming a huge fan of one song and listening to it over and over again for a week or so before moving on to another one. The tunes he is drawn to are usually insanely catchy, like this one, and easily become lodged in the brain. Lately, Xander has been obsessed with this song. He listens to it repeatedly, and anytime I'm near my computer says, "Hey! Let's watch that boombox video!" It is in this context that one day this week the following conversation took place while I was in the bathroom getting ready for bed:
Xander: (singing "Boombox" lyrics and dancing in hallway)
Alana: (combing hair) Seriously, you have to stop. If I wake up with that song stuck in my head in the middle of the night, I'm going to punch you until you wake up, too.
Xander: (smiling, rests palms on either side of the door frame) Oh, c'mon! You knew what you were getting into when you married me.
Alana: (serious) No, that's not true.
Xander: Oh, sure it is! You knew this could happen.
Alana: (puts comb down, turns to face Xander) No. I claim that when I married you, there was no way I could have known that years later you would log onto a website called "YouTube" to watch the same music video over and over again, then use special software to rip the audio from said video, and then import the audio to something called "iTunes" so that you could listen to the same music on repeat for days on end. There is no way I could have known you would do that.
Xander: (long pause) Did you just cite YouTube as a reason to nullify our wedding vows?
3 comments:
OMG this is US. Except for the fact that I'm in Xander's role. I have 100 million super cool things about me (ahem, G calls them super annoying quirks, but whatever) and G claims that he didn't know he was getting into this. But he was. We were together 5 years before getting married so he's just a liar-liar pants on fire!
Oh, and I do the song thing, including the CD thing. I will play a single CD in the car for 2 months and it drives G nutzo.
so, basically, on this one, I vote Xander!
I could have warned you about the crazy repetitive song thing. I think we listened to "Santeria" and also his Mannish CD about 700 times during the summer of 96. Sometimes I'll still randomly yell "Mannish, MotherF***er!" for no apparent reason. Ahhhh, good times.
At least back then he was limited to what he could find on CD. And when we first got together, we both had cars, so repeat listening happened behind closed car doors. But this YouTube and iTunes thing is really pushing it to the limit.
You gotta know your limits with a boombox...
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