a good memory with TR...
Mar. 13th, 2019 08:48 pm...cos if they were HORRIBLE all the time we'd've left a lot sooner.
I was reminded of this because it's![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mdlbear's birthday (y'all go join in the Birthday Dirge chorus over here).
TR & I were walking through town, & came to a light where a white guy was standing in the median holding a sign that said 'Honk! It's my birthday!' while his lady & small child stood on the sidewalk doing that sort of helpless laugh that's half 'this is hilarious' & half '& I hope he doesn't get killed'. People were intermittently honking, cos, well, it was the dude's birthday.
As we crossed towards him I leaned over & said to TR, 'How bout we give him a couple verses of the Birthday Dirge?' She, of course was all for it, & the look on the guy's face when two rather-older-than-him white women stopped right next to him & launched into the Dirge ... in the lower end of our ranges, somewhere in low tenor or high bass territory ...
It was, needless to say, HILARIOUS. Extra points to the two of us for starting on the same note & singing the same four verses with no time to consult, although we knew slightly different variations of all four of them ...
I love it when I can totally mess with some mundane's head, but in a GOOD way.
I was reminded of this because it's
mdlbear's birthday (y'all go join in the Birthday Dirge chorus over here). TR & I were walking through town, & came to a light where a white guy was standing in the median holding a sign that said 'Honk! It's my birthday!' while his lady & small child stood on the sidewalk doing that sort of helpless laugh that's half 'this is hilarious' & half '& I hope he doesn't get killed'. People were intermittently honking, cos, well, it was the dude's birthday.
As we crossed towards him I leaned over & said to TR, 'How bout we give him a couple verses of the Birthday Dirge?' She, of course was all for it, & the look on the guy's face when two rather-older-than-him white women stopped right next to him & launched into the Dirge ... in the lower end of our ranges, somewhere in low tenor or high bass territory ...
It was, needless to say, HILARIOUS. Extra points to the two of us for starting on the same note & singing the same four verses with no time to consult, although we knew slightly different variations of all four of them ...
I love it when I can totally mess with some mundane's head, but in a GOOD way.
