Matrix Moment #1

Taking stuff to a charity shop...

It just happens to be the first of April so no doubt anyone reading this is going to say it's an April Fool's gag, I promise you, it isn't and this is a genuine Matrix Moment.

So, we've got some old, no longer played with Tomy Race sets bought for one of the kids years ago, track, cars and stunt kits etc. Plus a random collection of old clothes, mostly woolies and shoes and lastly one of those plastic foot baths with whirlpool spa effect. All of this stuff might be welcome at the local charity shop so I combined a trip to our nearest Tesco store in a rather typical English market town nearby.

Here's a slight diversion, there is too much to carry in one try. It would take two trips to unload the stuff from the car and take to the charity shop. Which meant, I had to first park one end of town as close as possible to the charity shop for obvious reasons, then drive around to Tesco.

Okay, I grab a plastic bin liner with all the toys and walk up to the town's high-street from the car park, passing through a little side-street I've walked through many times before but only today did I notice its name; Baker Street, amazingly it actually has a bakery there too.

This then triggered the classic 'Ear Worm' of Gerry Rafferty's 1970's hit, 'Baker Street' which I also took into the charity shop with the old toys. What should I hear being played from the Grundig SCD 5000 CD Cassette Player Radio AM FM, Silver £10, (donated last week)? Yes, the song already in my head. Then a few minutes later leaving now empty handed to the sax solo and all still playing in my head.

By the time I was back behind the wheel my mental play-list had switching with my ear-worm sliding into Rafferty's other 1970's hit 'Stuck in the middle with you'.

Shortly after, I park at Tesco, go in search of a trolly and finally go through the store's swishing automatic doors where playing through the Tesco PA system is indeed, is Gerry Rafferty's 1970's hit 'Stuck in the middle with you', 'clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right'.