My moment...

Musical people hum a lot. I noticed this on myself. I like to hum, especially when I am tense and there is silence wherever I am.

Most of the time I hum something I recently heard, or some song that obsesses me. At other times there is no particular song in my head. That's when creative people just invent a sequence of notes that they hum and sound nice. Not me. That's when stupid brainwashing songs pop up: Silent Night and the USA national anthem usually :))

I was at the office this week when one of my colleagues started to hum the USA national anthem. I started laughing hysterically because I thought only I did that. I explained it to her and we both laughed at it. Later on, another colleague of ours joined us. There was silence in the room again... and we heard someone humming the USA national anthem. I thought my first colleague was still joking about it. She thought I was joking about it. It turns out the latter colleague had the same stupid habit... about the same stupid music theme.

I educated myself out of humming Silent Night and national anthems altogether.
Now it usually is: Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad and Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen...
Or some song I heard recently... or some song that obsesses me...