Monday, April 28, 2008

Misheard Lyrics

I listen to the Podcast of my local radio station - Chum 104.5 of Roger, Rick & Marilyn after I come home from work at the group home. They play the listeners misheard lyrics every now and again and then I start hearing the misheard lyric instead of the correct words from that point on. In fact I enjoy the odd lyrics better. Recently they talked about misheard lyrics on YouTube. People have submitted visuals of the misheard lyrics and they are hilarious.  I love Sean Paul's Temperature and Fall out Boy's This ain't a Scene done by Xikaze. I had to look up the real lyrics out of curiosity. 

Work is so non-stop that I am looking for anything that will make me laugh. Although I am not being treated like a Helper Monkey as much there are other pressures that keep me hopping. Like the conversation I had with one of the Residents, he kept insisting that his air conditioner wasn't working and I kept saying I had just checked it and indeed it was working. He asked me at one point maybe I had mistaken the fan in another room for his air conditioner. I walked away to collect myself and to try to think of how to explain it to him without having both of us repeat whether it was working or not. Finally I asked him what year he had checked it (2007) and told him when I checked it (2008) and he said he would try it out again and would phone me if there were any problems. Sure enough, 5 minutes later he calls with the proclamation that it is not working, no cold air was coming out and it was seizing up. Manny went up to check on the beleaguered  air conditioner and found it was producing cold air and fixed a potential problem. I am looking forward to having time off and not worrying about whether his air conditioner will hold up in hot weather.

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