Shambling Crazies: The singing along in the supermarket thread

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I just freaked out all the squares at sainsbury's, bopping up and down to sloan in my headphones. Where in the WORLD? [picks up prosciutto] IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ME! [gets mozzarellla, now doing air guitar]

G00blar on Monday, March 5, 2007 1:04 PM (30 minutes ago)
haha i LOVE doing that! at bus stops too.

emsk on Monday, March 5, 2007 1:06 PM (28 minutes ago)
I always catch myself lip syncing (most often lip-shouting actually) because people look at me funny.

G00blar on Monday, March 5, 2007 1:06 PM (28 minutes ago)
Ohmigod, I almost forgot until I made lunch (leftover curry - AUBERGINE PICKLE!!! Like lime pickle but made from aubergines. It is nummy hotttt goodness.

Ha ha, I once got caught out doing GOTH DANCES in the parking lot of the Woolworths where I worked to the Bauhaus on my headphones and have never done this again. Honest.

Masonic Boom on Monday, March 5, 2007 1:29 PM (5 minutes ago)

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I often sing folk songs, sort of muttered, in the supermarket, especially when I am camping; which also means that I am normally bearded, dirty and smelly and often buy 300 quids worth of booze.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm basically teetering between extremes of total immersion in my headphones and embarrassed self-consciousness whenever I'm on the tube/walking the streets/in public.

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't do this much any more because I've not got an iPod/walkman or anything. I'm sure I probably do it at work though. Very little can stop me air-drumming to Can.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

singing at the top of my voice while cycling and feeling particularly joyous is another favourite, esp late at night. it makes people jump! i love it.

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't do this much any more because I've not got an iPod/walkman or anything

But you can sing along to the music playing in the supermarket!

― braveclub, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, no, I had forgotten about that. Sainsburys Streatham Common used to have "Rehab" playing in their media aisle, and I could NOT walk past without singing along.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this is embarrassing, a bit, when you sing along to lil' kim, which is what i tend to.

― lex pretend, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

But you can sing along to the music playing in the supermarket!

this is exactly what i thought this thread was about! in this heady modern age where all manner of music is sold in tesco - not just, y'know, the feeling or whatever - i get a frisson of joy when something like Joy Division comes on. "Dance dance dance dance dance to the deli till"...

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

must admit that i've never felt anything close to a frisson of joy per se when i've heard JD...

― lex pretend, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Paul Revere" was playing while I was in Office Depot once. I was esctatic. yet also so, so, sad.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I once heard a Rod Stewart cover of "Strawberry Letter 23" in my supermarket and almost filled the bacon trough with vom.

― nickalicious, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair I was incredibly hungover and barefoot.

― nickalicious, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I used to put my dad to shame in the supermarket. How? I would use the trolley as a dance vehicle. hahaha

― nathalie, Monday, 5 March 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

NOW PLAYING, IN MY HEAD:

almost filled the bacon trough with vom.
almost filled the bacon trough with vom.
almost filled the bacon trough with vom.
almost filled the bacon trough with vom.
almost filled the bacon trough with vom.
almost filled the bacon trough with vom.
almost filled the bacon trough with vom.

STOP!

― G00blar, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

BOM BOOM bah but dee duh diddle diddle bah
BOM BOOM bah but dee duh diddle diddle bah
BOM BOOM bah but dee duh diddle diddle bah
BOM BOOM bah but dee duh diddle diddle bah

god help me, I've been singing Can about the office.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair I was incredibly hungover and barefoot.

So hungover you forgot to wear shoes and socks?!

― braveclub, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

March 10th 1998, very early morning in the Maternity Ward, walking through with Dawn,

me: "I'm a mummeargh!" (as per the Fall)
Dawn: "Pardon?"

― Mark G, Monday, 5 March 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

There was a dude in Wilkinson, playing a toy electric guitar and going "whoooo". He was pretty cool.

― jel --, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm generally quite restrained, but sometimes can't resist flamboyantly hitting a single air symbol at the end of a build-up.

― chap, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Moonwalking down the cereal aisle, oh yeah.

― patita, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha I didn't forget, I go to that grocery store so often + it was a nice day + I was only there for bacon and spinach, I just didn't feel like shoeing up.

― nickalicious, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Very little can stop me air-drumming to Can.

this is very otm

― strgn, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday I sang along to Something for Kate whilst buying schooner glasses in Bar World.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

there is this small overpass btwn my house and the metro stn that is the perfect place for singing loudly while walking b/c it's pretty deserted and the traffic and warehouse roof fans are good accompaniment/cover

haha nicka
that reminds me of this one summer day, back when my bro and i shared an apartment, and he walked down the lane to the corner store wearing shorts and his slippers, big sheepskin ones that sort of feel like shoes so you forget sometimes, but they look ridiculous (this was before uggs became 'fashion'). my friend laughed at him when he returned and he looked down and was like, waht, no way?? and then we ate the chips he bought.
i have locked the door behind me and been all the way to the bottom of the stairs so many times in these, which now have holes in them, i'm sure one day soon i will find myself in a bar with them on. stoned.

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

and by 'these' i mean my brothers and i all had the same slippers sent all teh way from australia by friends

― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

C/O the Onion:

Headphones-Wearing Pedestrian Loudly Proclaims Iron Man Status

MINNEAPOLIS—Local resident James Gaines loudly proclaimed his Iron Man status Monday while walking down Hennepin Avenue wearing a Sony Discman. "I am Iron Man," Gaines announced in a deep, foreboding voice before launching into his dark, personal tale of madness and revenge. Gaines has previously declared himself "hot for teacher," "a teenage lobotomy," and "a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm."

― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

I sing all the time without shame or even notice, BUT I think my worst moment was pre-SSRIs when I started crying to a sing I didn't even like that was on a grocery store's PA.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

I went to Whole Foods this afternoon, and many employees were singing along with "We Are The Champions", which was playing on the in store music system. It was fun moving from section to section and singing quietly with the workers.
And by section to section I mean...Both Queen AND cheeese to dairy to health and beauty.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

I find it very hard not to punch the air when a really big song breaks, like A Giant by the Sons of T..C LETHBRIDGE or Won't get fooled again by The Who and not dancing to bouncy techno is nearly impossible, even if it is subdued bouncy shuffling.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

The bad version of this: there's this guy on my tram who clearly is way too into techno clubbing or something, who every morning has bad trance leaking out of his shitty headphones for everyone to have to hear. I've noticed him aggressively gurning and twitching while he listens, and today he got off the tram and did this weirdass karate move thing before walking off. WTF.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

This is only good if there is no leakage.

― Ed, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

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