I don’t really know where to go with this one – I never even remember believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny or anything – so I’m going to go with the first thing that pops into my head. For a long time I thought the words to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer went “Then all the reindeer loved him/As they shouted out with glee/Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer/You’ll go down in his story.” Perhaps this was an early nod towards future feminism as I hadn’t yet learned that history IS basically his story, but I felt like this had to be a personal account, because it’s not exactly a historical event. I honestly still have no idea what this song is really on about, it seems to casually drop in bullying, homogenized standards of physical appearance, fairweather friendship, entitlement and utilitarian concepts of personal value. I hate the messages of this song, and I’ve always found it just plain odd. Like many Christmas carols, if I’m being honest. The only other thing I can think of is that I used to believe it when people said things like “we should get together sometime.” I live in Canada, and people basically just say that as a way of saying bye. It carries zero weight at all. But as a child, coming from an immigrant family, I didn’t understand this and it really confused me. Now I probably do the same thing, mostly because I’m socially awkward and will say anything to get out of an interpersonal situation I don’t want to be in.
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I hate the idea that there’s anything polite about seeming to be planning something in the future when all the person means is to end the conversation. “Goodbye,” or “I have somewhere to go now. Goodbye,” are polite things to say. “I’ll call you,” or “Let’s get together some time,” or “Come and see me,” or “Call me,” need to mean what they say–otherwise they’re LIES.
THANK YOU! See, this makes perfect sense to me. I would much prefer someone said “it was nice running into you, I hope your life goes well from here since I probably won’t see you again” than “oh we should totally get together sometime and catch up properly!” Like NO. You don’t even have my number, dude. And I don’t have any interest in giving it to you. Social niceties make things so much more confusing, perhaps even more so for those of whose brains aren’t really built for it!
… edited to say: I meant how MANY people had trouble, lol…
HAHAHAHA!
Hopefully it’ll let me comment today… I’m surprised how few people had trouble thinking of something for this topic!
It’s a bit of a weird one, I think, in part because of the difference between how we perceive ourselves and how others see us. So the ones other people have told me came as a surprise to me, because it’s not how I see myself at all. I also think I don’t really look that much like any of them anyway, so they’re *all* a bit of a stretch!
Cute memory.
I love misheard lyrics… lol…. and, yep, a lot of songs if you really think about them, are odd. Now, here in the south “let’s get together sometime” is basically about the same–unless it’s followed up with…”what day next week do you want to meet for lunch?”
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Rockabye Baby has to be top of the odd songs/nursery rhymes list for me! I kind of just took it for granted until I had a kid and was trying to think of kids songs to sing… and when I thought about this one all of a sudden I was shocked. How morbid! I have refused to sing it ever.