High tunes

A little old Filipino lady delivers the mail to our floor here at The Corporation. We always know when she's on our floor because she wears an iPod shuffle around her neck and she sings along to whatever song is playing. But she doesn't really sing. It's sort of a singing/humming hybrid that sounds like a person suffering from dementia.

But this phenomenon isn't confined to office mailwomen. It's become prevalent on the street, public transportation and, most often, the gym. It's all I can do to keep from bursting into laughter when I hear fellow gym patrons singing along to their '80s power ballads.