School Of Rock: The Jukebox At The Laundromat

Okay, so we are going to start at pretty damn near the beginning. Now, I will warn you right now...School Of Rock will not always be pretty...But it will (mostly) be honest.
When I was a wee lad, (in the mid '70's) my family would travel via the family truckster(Country Squire Station wagon-it was not "metallic pea", though it did have the faux wood paneling) to my Grandfather's house in upstate New York in the summer.

The house had a washing machine, but no dryer. Sometimes, the clothes would get washed and then hung on a clothesline, but other times, we would go to the laundromat. It was always exciting to go to the laundromat. For me, anyways, I doubt it was quite the same adventure for my Mom, and it was probably torture for some of the other people in the laundromat whenever I was there, for reasons I will now explain.

You see, the laundromat had a jukebox. A jukebox in the mid '70's. The mind races with the possibilities, doesn't it ? Now, I would love to tell you that I regaled those folks with some early Bruce Springsteen, or some Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. I would love to tell you that...But I did say that I would be honest. No, I played none of those tunes. I rotated three songs faithfully whenever we visited the laundromat. Brace yourselves....

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