Mindless Holiday Cheer.

I've played my Branches CD way too much. It is endless enjoyment for me, so I don't regret playing it so much, but I was driving home last night and decided to turn it down. I had gone to see the Christmas lights display on a certain block of homes and Jingle Bells was all up in my head. So I turned down Branches and turned up Michael. It was maybe the best rendition of an a capella Jingle Bells you'll never hear. (Fact.) So I'm belting it out, holiday cheer bursting my car at the seams. (I only know about 4 lines of the son,g so it got pretty repetitive.) When, in a moment of mindless singing... I used my mind.

I have never, ever, ridden in a "one horse open sleigh". I have no idea, none what so ever, how fun that is. I had been singing it for like 5 minutes, including the joyous "HEY!" at the end. What a stupid song. I think the closest I have come is maybe a trolley? Like a Christmasy trolley ride, which is far to smooth for the jingly bells anyway.

Also. When it was snowy and your carriage was unable to traverse the snow, did everyone have a sleigh they could hook up? Was it ever a common enough experience that a whole song should have been written about the joys of it? It really just sounds like its cold, slow and probably dangerous. Plus, the only sleigh I have ever even seen is Santa's, and besides being fake, it doesnt even go on the snow, it flies. (And its not pulled by one horse, but by nine reindeer.) I'm making a pact right now, I will not sing Jingle Bells again until I know what I'm singing about.