MELLIPOP AND RETAIL TORTURE

Ok, so am feeling fairly blank again this morning as I stare down the barrel of 9 hours at the record store. Which is fine. But this also means that I have to listen to the new Robbie Williams "Best Of" album for NINE HOURS STRAIGHT. Again.... Store policy. The alternative is to play the new Rod Stewart "Best Of" album over the same time period, which is just unnecessary cruelty.

The store is also located next to a couple of three-foot high Christmas snowmen that dance and sing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" all freakin' day. And you get home and all you can do for the rest of the evening is walk around singing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow", because the language centre in the frontal lobe of your brain has been temporarily colonised by a couple of Christmas decorations. Weird.

The retail environment: Perfecting the art of torture...