Audioblogging: 'To the supermarket'
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Friends, my new ultracheap mp3-player doesn't let me down. At least it does what I hoped it would do: record sound.
So, when I went to the supermarket today, I hung it around my neck, so that the unsuspecting would think I'm just your average kid with an mp3-player (happily enough, I still look like I'm twenty even though I'm twenty-nine.)
Listen to: To the Supermarket (click the link while pressing shift so it opens in a new window and you can get back to this one!)
So you hear a dog and some pigeons that are our neighbours, and me getting on my bike.
Heavy traffic..
You hear me plodding.
And then I arrive in.. Heaven? No, there's just someone playing the accordion in front of the supermarket.
You hear the supermarketcarts rattling in the background.
The accordion's sweet waltz swells to a crescendo as I pick my cart. (I give the accordion chap a small amount of money. He must think that I can't hear him anyway, because I'm wearing the earphones for camouflage).
And then we're in the supermarket!
You hear a child moo-ing;
you hear the typical bleeping sounds of the checkouts;
a child singing;
a woman looking for 'capucijners' (wild guess);
a child that keeps calling 'au, au' when it obviously really hasn't been hurt;
tinkling bottles..
The checkouts sounds get louder as I approach them. You hear families interacting; people talking.
The cashier girl asks her colleague René if he can put a scribble on a check. 'Five euro's!' the jolly man jokes. 'Puh-puh-puh!' she answers him.
And then it's my turn!! 'Hoi', I say in my friendliest manner. The checkout bleep is almost unbearably loud now. But I keep smiling. 'Turned in bottles?' the girl asks friendly (probably for the millionth time). 'No I haven't' (probably for the hundredth time). As I pin the money she helps another customer with some enigmatic problem.
'Thank you! Hoi', I say, and she wishes me a good weekend. (It's only Thursday!)
So there's the accordionist again. When I don't give him the coin I take out of my cart, he stops playing, resuming when I leave the premise. (OK, I'm paranoid).
posted by Marten @ 9:05 AM;
