Stupid Guest Tricks

I am Sam wrote:Happens most on the way to MK little kids get excited and they love hearing songs they know. On the way back we don't with the exception of the last bus from the Pleasure Island/west end. Some drunk will start the song and only know a few lines. Then we'll join in and finish it. We Gage the situation if no one is having fun then we drop it. On most buses we've gotten requests. I would never let my fun ruin someone elses trip/day ECt. On the monorail where we did the hokey pokey the 3 year old in our cab wanted us to sing it after we helped her sing "it's a small world".

Well, you asked the question..we answered. No need to defend how great you think it is.

As for me, well I get to go backstage most of the time so I get to avoid such things. I do so pity the drivers that are expected to grin while such things occur.

mapo

Personally, I don't think I'd mind cheerful kids singing one song. One. Unless the whole bus joined in to make it an enthusiastic sing-along and clamored for more, I'd get pretty annoyed if it kept going after that.

Since joining the Barbershop Harmony Society, I've appreciated that one item of their Code of Ethics, printed on the back of every membership card, is "We shall refrain from forcing our songs on unsympathetic ears"! :) (Except I mistaken told my kids about that rule, and they'd bring it up to keep me from singing too much at home!)

BRWombat wrote:Personally, I don't think I'd mind cheerful kids singing one song. One. Unless the whole bus joined in to make it an enthusiastic sing-along and clamored for more, I'd get pretty annoyed if it kept going after that.

Since joining the Barbershop Harmony Society, I've appreciated that one item of their Code of Ethics, printed on the back of every membership card, is "We shall refrain from forcing our songs on unsympathetic ears"! :) (Except I mistaken told my kids about that rule, and they'd bring it up to keep me from singing too much at home!)

Kinda makes you wish that when the framers of the constitution wrote it, they also included the right of free song with free speech! :D:

BRWombat wrote:Personally, I don't think I'd mind cheerful kids singing one song. One. Unless the whole bus joined in to make it an enthusiastic sing-along and clamored for more, I'd get pretty annoyed if it kept going after that.

Since joining the Barbershop Harmony Society, I've appreciated that one item of their Code of Ethics, printed on the back of every membership card, is "We shall refrain from forcing our songs on unsympathetic ears"! :) (Except I mistaken told my kids about that rule, and they'd bring it up to keep me from singing too much at home!)

Since I love Barbershop singing this may seem out of the blue, but as a kid whenever my Fathers quartet would be "on the road" and we would stop in a restaurant they would always break out in song.

It used to embarrass the hell out of me. All I could think about was, what if these people just came here for some quiet time, they had stuff to talk about or just didn't like this style of singing? What choice did they have other then getting up and leaving, but to listen until the food came and the boys got quiet.

That was the one flaw I saw in it and that was that these guys loved what they were doing and always thought that everyone else did as well. To be fair, most people seemed to be positively responsive, but who knows how much of that was politeness or the hope that if they applauded the guys might stop.