Yesterday I was hanging out in my aisle stocking because that’s what you do on Thursday. Ever since Christmas there has been an internal battle over which radio station we are going to listen to. Myself and the store manager have tried a few different ones on the weekends we both work and after a few hits and misses we have landed on the 80’s channel. We’re both about the same age and grew up listening to songs from the 80’s so we like that channel. Well, the assistant manager is a little older, more in the 43 year old range so she likes country. We tend to have a struggle where if the store manager is off for more than two days, when we come back the station is suddenly on country music. Well that shit gets changed as soon as it’s heard, frankly because it just sucks. Well, we are on the 80’s now and have been for a couple of weeks.
So, like I said before, I was standing in my aisle working my fingers to the bone and suddenly I hear something familiar. Now mind you I’m used to hearing some Huey Lewis, some Cyndi Lauper and all the rest of that 80’s stuff on here, but this blew my mind. In my little shitty store they played… Walk This Way. Mind you this wasn’t the Aerosmith version of Walk This Way. This was the 1986 version that Run DMC did with Aerosmith. I see you’re not impressed. You see, I live in redneckville and they have NEVER played anything rap related on the 80’s channel before. This was a big deal to hear one of my favorite rap groups playing in my least favorite places to work. Obviously you’re not getting the point here. Rap music was being played in our store. Our shitty little store where most of the people think rap music is evil. I think I just stood still under the speaker in my aisle hoping no stupid ass customer wouldn’t come up and interrupt my time portal back to 1986, all the while I hoped that they would play It’s Tricky or You Be Illin next. Hell, even some LL Cool J or perhaps some Public Enemy would have been great. Alas, the following song was Heart of Rock and Roll from Huey Lewis. It was still the best five minutes I’ve had at my job for, oh say ten years.