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A Betoota Heights high school student has proven to those around him this week that he’s capable of taking a bit of initiative.
Rather than sit in the back seat of a poo-brown VE Commodore wagon and be subjected to the beige delights of Crowded House for hours on end, young Alex Fraser decided to chop up his Old Man’s CDs weeks before they depart for Mooloolaba.
The 17-year-old told The Advocate that he’d rather take his seatbelt off and slide out of a moving car than listen to the pedestrians croons of Neil Finn wading his way through yet another lukewarm rendition of ‘Four Seasons In One Day‘.
“The choice is simple for me. Of course, I’d rather rag doll along the Bruce Highway at 110 kph than listen to another one of Dad’s CDs,” he said.
“So rather than just day dream about throwing my meat sack out of the car while it’s moving, I’m just doing to chop the CDs up and throw them in the bush,” he said.
“He can’t work Spotify or anything so this is the sure-fire way to make sure I’m not having to listen to some senior citizen belt out that fucking, ‘Hey now, hey now!’ song anymore. I can put up with ACDC because they sing about shooting hammer and fornication so yeah. They don’t write songs about the weather in Melbourne,”
“I can even put up with Bob Dylan. It’s essentially just white noise and it helps me sleep. I just can’t do the ‘Hey Now!’ song. I’d rather listen to ‘Hey Ya!’ on repeat for 12 hours.”
More to come.
