Day Twenty-​​Eight – A Song That Makes Me Feel Guilty:

Once upon a time when Emily was a young lass of twelve, her brother brought home a cas­sette tape by the Vio­lent Femmes. The emerg­ing 80’s alter­ative music lover (thanks in part to her older brother’s taste in music) loved the infec­tious songs recorded on that now-​​classic album.

There was one par­tic­u­lar song that cracked 12-​​yr old Emily up every time she heard it. It was a song that her brother loved to play over and over again, just to get a rise out of his “baby sister.”

One fine day, while blast­ing out the Vio­lent Femmes’ “Add It Up” on the stereo sys­tem, the sib­lings’ mother came rush­ing into the room. She pressed the stop but­ton on the cas­sette tape player and then took it out of the stereo sys­tem. She then pro­ceeded to throw said cas­sette tape down on the ground and smash it with one stomp of her heel.

From that day for­ward, every time Emily hears that song … she can’t help but feel just a tad guilty.

The other part of her looks back at that mem­ory and GRINS. Because really … how smart were those two sib­lings to play such a song in front of their mother?

~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~

What is with this 30-​​day song chal­lenge?

What was yes­ter­day’s song?

Who knew that one day we’d be delin­quents in our Mom’s eyes?