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That Old Time Music

Mon, 28 Feb 2011, 05:00 PM (-06:00) Creative Commons License

They sat at the table eating their Thundercloud egg salad sandwiches. He guzzled an iced tea. She was drinking water. The Cars were playing over the speakers.

“It’s really quite amazing,” he said.

“What?” she said.

“This song,” he said. “That this song is playing here and that it totally makes sense.”

“This is The Cars,” he continued. “They were playing when I was in college, in high school. The music is almost thirty years old. Just imagine if you had walked into a sandwich shop back in the 1970s. Under what circumstances would you have expected to hear a song from the 1940s playing?”

It really is quite amazing, don’t you think?

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