Cute elderly British ladies
So I was at the grocery store tonight after lab, in the checkout line, when the person ahead of me asked the checker (also named Liz) if they were out of bananas, as they hadn't been restocked yet. The checker called the produce guy , who said they didn't have any. Liz was confused at first, and said "He was joking with me. He said yes, we have no bananas." I chuckled and told her,
"You know that's actually a song."
"Really?"
"Yep."
It was then the tiny English lady behind me says "It's an old Vaudeville song"
Liz says, "It's a song? Howcome I've never heard it before?"
At which point I started singing the chorus, which goes
Yes, we have no bananas / We have no bananas today
and the English lady and her mother joined in the second line. We sounded lovely. She asked me if I had a British background, which I don't, but I stumbled on the song whilst trying to bolster my Disney music collection. It's on the same record as the original-ish "I've got a loverly bunch of coconuts" (and now you all hate me because it's stuck in your head and you don't know the words, muahaha). Anyway, this exchange lead to a pleasant conversation about how everyone in England would sing, and how English, Irish, Welsh, etc. families would go for drives in the country on Sundays, and parents would sing to their kids and teach them songs, so children would grow up knowing their parents songs, plus the new ones. This woman (I didn't get her name) said she'd been in the States for 55 years, but she still had the nice accent. Anyway, it made me smile, and was worth the trip to the store for random songs with British strangers.
In other news, clouds suck, but I'm good at improving alternative lab instructions for cloudy nights. I don't think any students felt like crying tonight, and most of them got a chance to see Saturn, even through the sucky clouds.
Seriously. The clouds can BITE ME.
"You know that's actually a song."
"Really?"
"Yep."
It was then the tiny English lady behind me says "It's an old Vaudeville song"
Liz says, "It's a song? Howcome I've never heard it before?"
At which point I started singing the chorus, which goes
Yes, we have no bananas / We have no bananas today
and the English lady and her mother joined in the second line. We sounded lovely. She asked me if I had a British background, which I don't, but I stumbled on the song whilst trying to bolster my Disney music collection. It's on the same record as the original-ish "I've got a loverly bunch of coconuts" (and now you all hate me because it's stuck in your head and you don't know the words, muahaha). Anyway, this exchange lead to a pleasant conversation about how everyone in England would sing, and how English, Irish, Welsh, etc. families would go for drives in the country on Sundays, and parents would sing to their kids and teach them songs, so children would grow up knowing their parents songs, plus the new ones. This woman (I didn't get her name) said she'd been in the States for 55 years, but she still had the nice accent. Anyway, it made me smile, and was worth the trip to the store for random songs with British strangers.
In other news, clouds suck, but I'm good at improving alternative lab instructions for cloudy nights. I don't think any students felt like crying tonight, and most of them got a chance to see Saturn, even through the sucky clouds.
Seriously. The clouds can BITE ME.