iPod Moments

I sometimes wish I had the ability to hear what someone is listening to on their iPod in public. I'm always so curious for a number of reasons. 1) I listen to music that might surprise people. I feel like when I'm walking down the street the song playing in my ears isn't what someone would look at me and expect to find playing. Sometimes I'm jamming out to an old Britney Spears song. Sometimes I'm listening to some country. Other times it's rap. 2) Musical tastes and varieties can tell a lot about a person. Sometimes it can show how open-minded a person is to new and different things [or how close-minded they are]. Sometimes it could show their age, their experiences, their worldliness. 3) If I knew what they were listening to it could be a conversation starter and I love having conversations with strangers about commonalities [or differences].
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I just had a moment outside. I was walking to my bank from work to make a quick deposit and I was listening to all my country music on shuffle. The song I LOVE [Keep on Lovin' You by Steel Magnolia] came on and there's one line in particular that gets my heart all a-flutter: "When that morning sun is dawning/Baby, both of us should call in/'Cause we got too much love to fall in." This song is a duet between a man and a woman and the woman sings that line. At the end of the line she sings loud and passionately and I always want to sing that whole verse. Well, as I was walking down the street back to work, the song came to this line and my whole body just wanted to react. I actually stretched my arms out down and tensed up my shoulders...just to have some sort of reaction. What I really wanted to do was stop right there, raise my arms, fists clenched and yell out that verse for all to hear. Maybe next time.