Because only good things come from the conversations you have on long car rides after the kids fall asleep.
You remember what our song is, right?
I think yeah, it’s that song by Salt and Pepper right?
Salt n Pepa?
Whatever, the one you always sing when I tell you I’m going to mow the lawn.
Push It?
I think so, is that right?
You think our song is Push It by Salt n Pepa?
Wait, I don’t know, I am not good with names of songs. You’re talking the one we danced to at our wedding, right?
Do you think we danced to Push It in front of my grandparents and my priest at our wedding?
Er, wait. Is that a song about STD’s or AIDS or something?
Are you, like, high right now?
I don’t know, why do you always asked me this pointed shit while I’m driving, I mean, I don’t know, I get all the girl bands confused, was it not that, then?
We danced to Into The Mystic and Van Morrison is a dude.
Well, I didn’t just pull Salt and Pepper out of thin air. Is that our normal song? Like, for our coupleness? Why do you girls have all this weird, obscure shit assigned to things that we have to remember and not piss you off about, and it’s just really hard.
…
Is it that song from that movie with the Fashionable Male guy, about the asteroid hitting the earth, with the girl from Aerosmith?
You are ruining the magic, Andy.
And then, we didn’t talk for an hour and I had to pretend to look out my window all hurt the whole time, which was super hard, because the sun was on my side, until he finally tried to win me over with a Tupac pez dispenser from the gas station he took the kids to pee in.
Except, he says it’s not Tupac, but rather, Barack Obama, and that he knew I’d like it because I voted for him.
I just don’t understand boys at all.
And, for the record, our song has always been Oh My Love by John Lennon, with the only other acceptable answer being Northern Sky by Nick Drake, which was playing when he proposed.
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Our wedding song was also Into the Mystic by Van Morrison
I try to avoid these kids of conversations…I have accepted the fact that either you have a guy who is stable, good father and loving husband…or you have a guy who worships the ground you and any other woman that walks by…the romantic or the real “man”…I wouldn’t want my husband to be my girlfriend…but conversations like these definitely make me want a wife one day
I want a Barak Obama pez dispenser!
I have no clue what our song was at our wedding. The music kind of sucked.
Are you SURE it’s not Push It? Cuz that would be pretty dope.
Cut the man some slack, the songs are CLEARLY similar.
Uh push it..push it real good!! sounds a lot like ..nope..never heard the other song.
Push it reeaaaallll good!
This reminds me of a tutorial I posted. http://www.nicegirlnotes.com/how-to-dance Be forewarned; i discuss pelvic thrusting.
Totally have Push It stuck in my head. Yeahhh!
When I was in labor and my husband was counting to 10 while I pushed.. he broke out into song mid way and sang “Push It” by Salt and Peppa… it was actually really funny, because I had an epidural.
Nice! My hubby remembers our song, cuz he’s cheesy like that! Glad you got an Obama Pez dispenser out of it though!
Andy’s right. Girls are weird about that shit.
I always get ours wrong too. But that’s only because I swear she keeps changing it on me.
This is hilarious. Especially the pretending to be hurt part.
The other day we were watching Wanda Sykes (and yes I am a little bit embarassed to admit that) and she gave guidelines for figuring out your hooker name… or stripper name… or mistress name… or something like that. Anyway, it was your favorite candy followed by your favorite holiday. And I was probably a bit overly impressed with the fact that my husband actually guessed my hooker name ON THE FIRST TRY. We’ve been together for more than a decade, the man probably shouldn’t be getting so many points for something as simple as my favorite candy and holiday but, what can you do?
What does this have to do with your post? No idea. Apparently I’m in the mood to leave random stories on other peoples’ blogs today. You’re welcome.
Oh, and I’d much rather eat Tupac Pez than Obama Pez. In case you were wondering.
My BFF and I watched The Wedding Singer when we were planning the wedding so our song was “TRUE” bwahaha. We laughed and laughed and my poor hubby had no idea why until after the wedding when we watched The Wedding Singer…I am so mean.
My dad and I danced to Morning has Broken by that guy who became a muslim and then they played Fun Fun Fun by the Beach Boys for my hubby to come “steal” me from my dad. My mom thought that up and to this day thinks she was sooooo clever. ;P
Fashionable Male?! Ahaha! Mallrats callback!
I’m ashamed to say that the song we danced to at our reception was that damn Celine Dion song from Titanic…Oh I cringe when I think back on that now.
Hubby was making fun of me the other day because I had to ask him what the name of the song we had our first dance to was.
Last year we celebrated our anniversary 2 days late because neither of us remembered on our actual anniversary.
I suck at being the remember every little thing wife
Our wedding song was “Let’s Get It On”.
I let him pick one thing that day. Damn it.
I hate to say that I’m kind of a man when it comes to this stuff, but I am. I have a horrible memory for stuff like this so it just never gets remembered at our house. I guess the up side is that I don’t have to look into the sun for an hour with my (false) indignation.
Our song is “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey – because strangely enough, I AM a small town girl, and my husband is a city boy, born and raised in South (of) Detroit (Toledo OH – an hour south).
Oh, and our wedding song was “Lost in this Moment” Big & Rich – which was sweet, and HE picked. Then again, he also picked “GLADos” the theme song from a game called Portal to cut our cake to, because the character singing tries to lure you into a trap by offering you cake. Men… what are you going to do…
Our song while dating was Kiss From a Rose by Seal. I know, I know…..PLEASE STOP PLAYING THAT EFFING SONG. We got tired of hearing it too. Now it’s ok.
There was no song playing when I proposed. At least I didn’t hear one playing inside Cinderella’s castle!
When we got married, I selected Angel Standing By by Jewel. She still can’t hear that song without crying, but the best was when we got to see her play it live.
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
LOL. Men are great. I don’t think my Gent has even considered us having a “song”. I’m sure any conversation regarding one would go frighteningly similar to the one you just described above
My husband and I do not have song. Mostly because this conversation would happen. Or maybe because I would actually choose Push It and that would send my overly sentimental husband into the fits. Like when I chose D’ya Think I’m Sexy by the Revolting Cocks as our first dance (not even a joke).
You let your children pee at gas stations? I’m appalled.
Because You Love Me by Bon Jovi….I love 80′s music, too:)
I’m sorry, I gotta go with Andy on this one.
Just give up and change Your Song to “Push It”
At least you’ll be the only ones to claim it
Tell me? How impressed are you that I GET the Fashionable Male reference. I just blew your mind didn’t I?
I think we (women) set ourselves up for failure by asking a man this kind of question. I often have done the same thing. I know it’s going to be a dumb-ass answer…no matter what the question. Just let it be “push it”. He’ll remember it now that you argued about it.
I made the mistake of asking “do you think I’m pretty…? I got “yeah, Pretty Weird!” I just expect it now.
So I just had to look it up because I have cobwebs of a brain but our wedding song was “All of Me” by Stryper. I remember the day my husband, then fiance played it in his car and I told him “that’s our wedding song!” Well, the day of our wedding, the dumbass DJ announced the song as “To hell with the devil” and my European parents almost fell to the floor when hearing “hell” and “devil” as a wedding song. Turns out, “To Hell with the Devil” was the album from which the song “All of Me” came from. Ahh, the joys of shocking family members when you don’t even mean to.
What’s not romantic about To hell with the devil?” I think that is the official theme song that plays when my in laws arrive into town.
MEN!
looooooove van morrison. great wedding song
I so love that song, “Into The Mystic”.
I am the opposite, my guy remembers everything that I cant remember.
Are you in a multiple marriage? Because maybe he was thinking of one of the other weddings.
My husband I don’t have a song, because we are super classy and got married some chick in her house. If we did it would definitely be Push It
I’m so jealous. My hubby and I don’t have a song but I pretend it’s Love Song by The Cure. Even if we did have a song, he would be like your hubby. But not only would he not remember it, he would crucify the singer’s name. Getting Al Green and Tom Green mixed up is totally beyond me. Oh yes he did!
That’s okay. Our ‘song’ is Lover of Mine by Allanah Myles…and it’s about a breakup.
We danced to the exact same song. Horribly. It would have helped, when we had wedding-night-dancing-practice sessions in our living room, if we actually practice to the song we planned to dance to.
Totally agree with Andy. I remember our wedding song, but there are a thousand other little details that I’m sure my wife only tracks so she can get mad at me for not knowing when she decides to quiz me!
hmm, well we didn’t dance at our wedding so we don’t have a song in that respect.. We were super classy and had the reception in my parents’ garage.. Something about being 18, pregnant and already ‘legally’ married didn’t equal the ‘rents pulling out all the stops for our wedding ceremony.
“When you say nothing at all” by Alison Krauss & Union Station was playing prior to me walking down the aisle so I guess that counts as our song? “All My Life” by K-Ci & JoJo was the song he declared was ours when he was away in Korea for a year, but that was already 3 years into the marriage so I’m not sure it counts.. hmm..
omg i peed a little reading this – salt n pepa. classic.
Into the Mystic is a great song! When you say nothing at all was the song I danced to at my wedding.
By Allison Kraus? Thats what we danced to, too. But I looove anything by Van Morrison.
We don’t have “a” song, probably because we can’t agree on music too much. And I totally can’t remember what song we danced to for our first dance. A friend actually asked me on Sunday what it was (since I was regaling them with details of a totally hick wedding that took place at the campground we were staying at…digressing) and she couldn’t believe I couldn’t remember. I told her it was 20 years ago and it was some 50′s tune. I need to go watch my video tape……
You literally crack me up…with EVERY single blogpost!!!! Loved this!
I am laughing hysterically imagining a dance to Push It in front of grandparents and a priest!! Men….frustrating but good for a laugh!
How much money can I make just holding up a cardboard sigh begging for money?
After reading this, I went to ask my husband what our song was. He had a slightly panicked expression on his face, had just heard me laughing out loud right before I went outside to ask him, so he didn’t know if he should be wary or if was going to let him in on the joke.
We don’t really have a song, aside from the one we got married to (“Unchained melody”, Righteous Brothers), so he couldn’t really answer, but he cracked up as much as I did when I summarized the Salt ‘N Pepa bit for him
“Is that our normal song? Like, for our coupleness?”
I couldn’t breath for several minutes. Was rocked by seizures of pure unrestrained laughter.
I’m pretty much satisfied that my husband knows we got married and danced at our wedding. Anything more is bonus.
Isn’t that looking out the side window prentending to be hurt thing the absolute WORST??? It’s even harder when you’re the one driving….