Back when I was in High School I got UB40's remake of Elvis’s “Falling In Love With You” stuck in my head. I thought it was cool at first singing it in my head all day in school. I thought it was cool singing it in my head all evening at work while I mopped grocery story floors.
I DID NOT THINK IT WAS COOL when I could not sleep because the damn thing was stuck in my head. Nor the next night, nor the next night. I was a wreck, a wilting man, the song was literally killing me.
For YEARS I avoided that song like a scared girl. If it came on the radio, I would switch stations with the speed of the fastest superhero. I think it was seven years later I was at a wedding and the song played. My white knuckles dug into my chair as I feared for my life. Was I to make a run for it? Had I already heard too much? Not wanting to give the impression of a bomb threat, and realizing that the damage to my brain was most probably done, I stood there and took it like a man.
Much to my surprise I slept like a baby that night.
