My grocery store rocks ... like a hurricane

So I just came back from my local grocery story, SuperSaver ... that's
right, one word ... and you would not believe what I heard over the
store's speaker system. Go ahead guess. Try as you might, it's not gonna
happen, so I'll just tell you, Alex Trebec. "New Moon on Monday" by Duran
Duran. This is a DD song that I don't recall getting huge airplay back
in the day. It wasn't "Hungry Like the Wolf," "Rio," or even "Wild Boys."
I'm not complaining mind you, not at all, I think it's cool as hell, but
it's like "what the fuck?" I can't buy an 80s CD with anything but "She
Blinded Me with Science" and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" on it, but my
grocery store is playing a song that only I and my half a fag buddies
knew back in 1984.

And that's nothing. The other day, I heard "Sign of Fire" by The Fixx.
Now, The Fixx is a band that maybe a dozen people remember and even
then they only remember "One Thing Leads to Another" and mabye, MAYBE
"Red Skies at Night." but "Sign of Fire?" That's some seriously deep
album track shit, my nizzles.

So why is my second rate local grocery store so cool? I don't know.
The thought that scared me the most was that there was a guy too much
like me somewhere behind the scenes playing his old 80s favs for the
folks. I knew he'd have to be one pissed off and desperate loner just
waiting to snap. This made me reflect on the horror that is my own life.

Thankfully for both of us, that was not the case. Apparently this is a
service like any other store might use, just better. It comes over the
satellite and no one in the store selects it. It's like Sirius or XM
for retail. This did not get me thinking much beyond that point except
to say, cool, I guess.

And I thought I was getting old in 1990 when I heard a muzak version
of "Purple Rain" that would have made my grandmother want to waltz.