There’s really nothing like pulling up in the driveway and shutting off the engine just as that final cymbal crashes or that wailing guitar solo slowly fades into perfect silence. If you time it just right, you’ll miss the start of the commercials, and you’ll be dutifully rewarded with the song replaying itself in your head all day.
AWESOME!
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22 Comments
October 24, 2008 at 1:36 am
Hell yes! I’ve had that happen many a time, and sometimes I time my arrival just right to have the song end.
Some good ones: Tom Sawyer, Enter Sandman, Bohemian Rhapsody.
What seems to be better is when you start the car, and it’s the opening licks to said songs! Awesome to the max. I know how outdated that is, but it really is that awesome.
October 24, 2008 at 10:25 am
It happend to me this morning, whild driving my daughter to school, we both bounced to the beat and as we pulled into the school parking lot the song finished. Excellent way to start the day!
October 24, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I had a buddy in high school and he exercised what he called the “Zepplin Rule”. If a Led Zepplin song was playing on the radio and you arrived at your destination, you had to wait until the song was over before you could get out of the car. Kashmir was sometimes a bitch if we were late for class!
October 24, 2008 at 5:36 pm
HA I would haveeee to let The Rover play out and Achilles Last Stand…
Zeppelin and great pot go together like peanut butter and jelly…
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/10/24/joe-the-plumbermeet-ashley-the-liar/
October 25, 2008 at 2:50 am
Love it when this happens. Particularly good if the song in question is Zorba the Greek!
Awesome blog by the way. Probably the King of Blogs! I’m pretty positive by the time you get to #1, this blog WILL BE THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER and therefore will probably score #1 for itself.
Quite the paradox
October 25, 2008 at 4:20 am
I’ve always been more of a listen-to-NPR-as-you-drive kinda guy.
But there’s nothing like a really interesting story finishing up right as you get where you’re going.
October 26, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I have those days.
My mom turns off the car, before my favorite song ends, bummer.
Cool blog by the way, I’ve just started mines,
and these things are so new to me.
October 28, 2008 at 2:05 am
This happens to me all the time. Strangely enough, it’s the same song every time. She Builds Quick Machines by Velvet Revolver. When I show my pass at the neighborhood gates, Weiland is on the next to last “I’d take”. Then Slash rips into the solo as I turn the first corner. As I pull into the driveway, the song is at the pinnacle. When I get to the house, it ends. This has happened at least three times. Now, I drive a whole hell of a lot, but this doesn’t happen with any other song. I guess it could be worse. If it was Three Days Grace or Nickelback, I’d have to kill myself. Then again, I’d probably shoot the station manager if he played faggot music like that.
October 31, 2008 at 11:37 pm
This is the ideal situation. I’m usually afflicted the other way, not having a song quite good enough and flipping around, looking for a replacement even 15 seconds before arrival. Give me a piece; anything.
November 1, 2008 at 6:06 pm
You know what’s the antithesis of this? Arriving at your destination and an AWESOME song just starts. I’ve sat in my vehicle, for example, to listen to Pink Floyd’s “Time” as the clocks just started going off.
January 30, 2009 at 2:13 pm
This is great timing when it works out. I sometimes leave the motor running until it finishes.
February 21, 2009 at 2:03 am
hahahaahah.
whenever In-a-gadda-da-vida is on and my friend mac is in the car, we HAVE to sit and listen to the whole thing……
great great great times
May 13, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Haha.. Awesome
November 17, 2009 at 12:57 pm
When this happens, I tell my son, who’s seven, it was “good timing” and now he’s learned what “good timing” means and uses it all the time for various things.
March 21, 2010 at 2:02 am
Once I caught the Mission Impossible theme on the radio (weird!) and I was cruising a FULL parking lot at school. It made my day as the last notes were playing that I was pulling into the ONLY available spot out of 500+ spaces!
March 24, 2010 at 9:58 pm
I hate turning off the vehicle right in the middle of a song! If I have time, I sometimes just sit there and let it play out (without the vehicle running, of course).
April 21, 2010 at 9:12 pm
how bout when you arrive at your destination just as a great song starts and you stay in your car just to rock-out to that song, before you go inside :)
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August 5, 2010 at 1:25 am
yeah and it makes me think that maybe i was meant to be at that place for a reason :)
August 31, 2010 at 6:43 am
I don’t have a car so this awesomeness happens in a different way. It’s like this: I read about something – and on that same day, some channel is showing a programme on it – or a song is playing on that theme – or a close friend gets jabbering excitedly on that same topic. Once, I was reading the book Where Eagles Dare – and the same day I began reading, they screened the film on TV. Will never forget the excitement.
August 31, 2010 at 9:16 am
So good too know this feeling is universal….awfully awesome :)