doodledee

I heard a few minutes of that Casey Kasem Top 40 radio show while driving home from Rochester this morning. I think it's been 10 years since I heard it last. As luck would have it, I tuned in right before the 'long distance dedication' song, so I got to hear the sappy letter from some 17-year-old girl who had broken up with her boyfriend only to realize it was all a mistake and that she still loved him. I can't remember the song she requested, but I think it may have been that Brian Adams song 'Everything I Do, I Do it for You'. It was touching... In a Jerry Springer kind of way.

So here I am, driving my Jeep down a windy highway on a lonely Sunday morning, bawling my eyes out. Ok, ok, there wasn't actually any bawling, but it was kinda windy. Windy like that annoying kind of highway wind that tries to push your car into the ditch as soon as you manage to work yourself into one of those bleary-eyed highway driving trances that make the time go by faster. Stupid wind... I hate that wind. Anyway, as soon as the song started playing, I changed the station in search of more likeable tunes. And that's when it hit me.
I have missed every long distance dedication that has ever been dedicated.
We've gotta be talking hundreds, if not thousands of dedications over the years. What are the odds that I wasn't the target of [at least] one of those dedications? And I missed them all. It's just not fair.

So I guess the point of all this is that if you dedicated a song to me and never heard anything, please don't be offended, I never even heard it. Please feel free to rededicate or to stay unjustifiably pissed forever. If, on the other hand, you've never dedicated one to me, and you feel the time may finally be right, why not bypass Casey's bureaucracy and just email your letter and song suggestion directly to me?

Song suggestions available upon request.