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Dear Oldies Station,

November 16, 2007

I'm not really comfortable with the new direction our relationship has suddenly taken.

I know this is a bad time of year for this kind of talk, but I do really care about you and I want this to last for quite a while. I want to keep this relationship open and honest.

In that spirit, I must ask: are you smoking crack?

I like my quiet time with you in the mornings, driving to work. I like that you are full of empty music calories and that I know your every move. But this morning you threw a wrench into our routine.

Sleigh bells.
How could you?

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. It is a wonderful holiday and provides a great four-day weekend full of tryptophan and pie.

And yet you are wanting to skip right over it, pretend it isn't even going to happen. I think you'd even prefer to pretend the whole month of December doesn't exist until the 24th.

Sitting at yet another red light, I started at the radio dial in disbelief. Surely you weren't. You couldn't. Not Christmas music this early in the year.

But the jingle-jingling of the sleigh bells gave you away, and I immediately mashed my hand on the programmed buttons for something, anything other than Christmas music. I ended up on the Crappy Pop And Ella Ella Ella station and I left it there. I was too shocked and hurt by your betrayal to hunt down something better.

I'm going to get back into my car after work and will have to make a very important decision: Will I switch the radio over to you, will I leave it on the Current Crap station, or will I plug in my iPod?

And I'm going to let you know right up front. In the spirt of not the holidays, but of being open and honest. If I so much as hear one sleigh bell jingle. That is it.

I need some time to myself anyway, I've become too dependant on you.

You should spend some time finding your true self, figuring out if this sleigh bell impostor is who you really are. I'll check back in with you around January and... well, maybe we'll see.

Truly,
Valette

1 Comments

I would have to side with you on the whole "Christmas before Halloween" thing. Wait 'til the turkey makes a complete lap through the system to start whistling tunes of sleigh....
one thing more annoying than people who don't take their Christmas decorations down 'til August, is the people that PUT them up in August.

love, john on 17 November 2007

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