Driving music

Taking Jack to nursery on the way to work this morning, we joined the daily queue of traffic leaving our estate. Stop, start, stop, start etc.

As is common, my mind was elsewhere, contemplating perhaps what I had to do today, and not really noticing the music playing on random selection through my iPod (driving Jack around I have been practising my ability to switch off to whichever CD of nursery rhymes or Winnie the Pooh songs is usually playing, if only to preserve my sanity a little longer; today, however, I had managed to plug in MY iPod without challenge, which is fortunately a child music free zone).

Anyway, my day-dreaming was suddenly broken by a voice from the back:

Jack: "Can you turn the music up, please Daddy?" (Very polite is my son)

Daddy: "Oh, do you like this song then Jack?"

Jack: "Yes, I do."

The song that I then noticed was playing? Andy Williams - "Music to Watch Girls By".

As dated as "One Two, Buckle My Shoe" perhaps, but a song with a far more useful sentiment for a growing boy to learn about I feel.