Go Clouds

[arukou]

 This morning before I got into the shower, I was looking for something on Spotify to play in the bathroom, and lo, it suggested a list titled “Sing in the Shower.” “Well hot damn,” I thought. “This is just what I was looking for.” I think Spotify makes certain assumptions about the kind of person who would click such a list, because there was a boatload of Motown; I ended up knowing only a few of the songs they played me.

But the real point of the story is somewhere in there the Chicago Cubs song came on (I don’t know why this very region specific song would be thrown into a generic nationwide Spotify playlist; I’ll assume there was an intern from Chicago.) and I have never heard this song before in my life. And over the noise of the shower, I was getting very few words. I could make out “Chicago” and “Go!” and then a word which began with a “k” sound and my brain decided the most natural word in this context would be “cops.” As in “Go, cops! Get out of here!” Which made perfect sense to me.

But then there was mention of sunshine or something and I thought. Hmmm. Maybe not “cops.” “Clouds?” “Go, clouds, go?” I was still thinking along the lines of “Get out of here.”

And then finally the word “baseball,” and my brain caught up with the program, but for a while I was thinking that it was perfectly logical that the city of Chicago would have a song urging its cops to get out of town.