Background music

I think I am the most tolerant of people usually… but there is one thing which irritates me beyond measure… background music. Even if I like the actual music which is playing (and I can’t remember when I did) I can’t abide having it playing while I am shopping/eating/drinking/in a lift/in a waiting room.

I took my beloved husband out for dinner today as it is his birthday. Oh woe; we were sitting right under a speaker which was playing sentimental, trashy Christmas songs. I love Christmas, I love carols, I quite like even some quite corny Christmas songs… ‘Wombling Merry Christmas’, ‘When a child is born’, ‘Driving home for Christmas’… I don’t mind them, but I don’t want them when I’m trying to buy something, eat lunch, have a drink in the pub, go up ten floors in a lift etc… and I particularly don’t want them blasting in my ears when I am trying to have a lovely birthday meal with said beloved husband.

Background music? Bah! Humbug!