The Phantom of the Jukebox - It was me

Nice to see Lionel Richie on Breakfast being interviewed this morning. It brought back happy memories of my courting days with the wife.

When we first decided to date, we decided to keep it a secret from our group of friends to see how it would develop. It was a joint decision although we had been friends for over a year but politics within the group just made it a bit better to keep silent for a while.

While secretly, dating there was lots of socialising in pubs,  happy times but for the phantom of the jukebox. Well today, I will out myself and come out of the closet to the fact I was the phantom with the help of the future wife we would driving our mates mad by loading the jukebox with two songs.

What was driving everyone mad was who the hell was constantly putting Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’ and George Michael’s ‘Careless Whisper’ on the jukebox and after the fourth, fifth or tenth time it would be grinding everyone down. Comments like “Who put that shit on again” could regularly be heard coming from the direction of our table.

There was a bit of a code with the songs which made us giggle to ourselves, ‘Is it me your looking for’ a line from ‘Hello’ and ‘Careless Whisper’ well we had a secret to keep until one night in the bus station.