REGARDING: A CAB DRIVER'S TENACITY AS IT PERTAINS TO MUSICAL IDENTIFICATION

I took a cab tonight. The driver was an older man with white hair. He looked like he should be retired from working as a filing clerk or museum curator for decades. His car was like all cabs; it was the kind of car only cab drivers and old people drive. It had very large door handles.

When I got in he asked me, "Do you work in that record store?"
I said yes. I told him about how I work the late shift stocking shelves. There was a moment of silence, until he piped up and said, "I ask because I have a question for you about a song."

"There is a song that plays on the radio sometimes. It's called 'I don't dance' or something. I ask because it sounds just like Prince. It's got that funky beat, and the Prince singing. You know, like the really high singing? It's definitely Prince. But the radio station keeps saying it's Phil Collins, the guy who was in Genesis or whatever. Do you know anything about Prince?"

I told him that I was sorry, and that no, I didn't know that much about Prince.

"That's too bad. I thought maybe I could get someone who's a real Prince expert, so they could tell me that it's a Prince song."
I agreed. I'm agreeable.
"I looked it up on the internet. I googled the song. All the websites said it was Phil Collins too, but I can tell that it's a Prince song. It sounds so much like Prince, you know? It's got that funky Prince beat. I have to find someone who knows a lot about Prince."

I didn't want to tell the guy that it was definitely Phil Collins. I was thinking of the melody in my head.

I can't talk and I can't dance, the only thing about me is the way I Wa-a-alk.

I didn't want to tell him because I thought he would be crushed when I proved him wrong. I thought, this man is a retired old filing clerk or museum curator who's just working as a cabbie to fill his days. All he has left are sly observations about Prince songs being mislabeled as Phil Collins songs. He heard it, he knows it's a Prince song. It's a source of pride for him, he knows something nobody else knows.

He 's figured it out.













He wouldn't have believed me anyways.


According to the stats, Emoticomics! had an enormous amount of traffic on Monday. Is this real traffic? Are people actually reading this?
This whole "Internet" thing is so confusing.

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