Storytime: Change the Radio
So y'all, listening to some music this morning and a song came on that reminded me of something that happened while I was a lifeguard and the Head Guard of the shift, aka the manager.
So I used to work at a public pool, and since it was a city pool there were only four radio stations we had approval to play due to excessive use of swear words, really BAD swear words, religion and such.
One day we're listening to a country station we had approved. Note: y'all, I'm in TX so yee-fuckin-haw, I like country and so did 90%of the staff working that day. The song Drunk on a Plane came on. This is basically a song about a man who was supposed to be on his honeymoon but his fiance left him with a nonrefundable vacation so he decided to have a party and drink the flight away and buy drinks for anyone who wanted them. One of our regulars, who admittedly we all weren't necessarily fond of, took issue with the music.
She came up to the counter of the office and demanded we changed the station due to the fact children shouldn't be listening to songs about drinking. Did she have children? No. Did any parents come up and complain? No. Were there parents watching their kids in swim lessons who were singing along to this song? Yes. Quite passionately if I may add cause what country lover doesn't love Dierks Bentley's voice? (This isn't even one of his better songs, but good enough for radio).
I explain, after she demanded for a gospel station that we had a very short list of stations approved and religious music, unless coming onto a station in the form of a single song here and there, wasn't approved. She huffed and asked which stations were available: in total we had two country stations, one classic rock station and one more current music but very censored station.
She demanded I put the classic rock station on and so I obliged cause it would be easier to do than deal with this crazy lady who ALWAYS complains about something and I have a PLETHORA of stories about her and her water aerobics entitled self. As a summary of her character the most basic example is she wouldn't pay for the course we offered but came at the same time the class did and watch them from across the pool mimicking their actions. Then would be offended when we pointed out she would have to pay to participate in the class and claimed the teacher was ripping off her normal routine đ
Anyways, I'm getting off track.
I switched the stations, much to the dismay of parents who groaned, and what song happened to be playing? AC/DC's Big Balls... she said "See? Now that's real music" and turned around to walk off. Now, I love AC/DC, I grew up to my dad constantly playing them on car rides but I was sick of this woman's constant bitching, so I called out to her:
"Ma'am, I'm sorry but could you come here?"
She turned back to me and came up to the counter, I leaned over it and whispered "I'm sorry ma'am, but I think a song about a man getting drunk is much more appropriate for the children to listen to than a song describing an orgy and male genitalia"
She was in shock and stared at me while I smiled and turned the radio back to the country station, just in time for the last line "I'm drunk on a plane"
No idea what played next but it was one of two times I ever had a customer complain about me in the 8 years I worked there and my boss laughed when I told him what happend, obviously paraphrasing what I said to the woman and claiming if a "song about getting drunk is more damaging to a song about S-E-X I'm not sure she and I have the same understanding of what's inappropriate for a small child."
So yeah, one of my happiest memories was being able to sass that woman.
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