Saturday, December 6, 2008

It's not the 50's anymore, apparently...

I went caroling with a group of friends last night. We started off singing at people's houses that we knew, but then found ourselves knocking on the entire neighborhood's doors. I'm from Corvallis, which is a smaller town... but I didn't really think that people were nicer there, too. We were only successful in singing to half the houses; people would answer the door and then slam it shut when we started singing, or stare at us through the window! 

*sigh*

Maybe caroling is truly a thing of the past. I love it, though... so I guess I'll keep on trying! There was one house of elderly that started singing with us. As long as the old folks don't die off too soon, I'm good to go.  :)

2 comments:

Andrew S. Parnell said...

Caroling is definitely a foreign thing to a lot of people. I grew up in the bay area where it's really uncommon. One year when I was visiting family in Indiana, my aunt tells me we're going, and it was...weird. Very weird. People seemed to dig it though.

Contemporary JoE said...

I'm glad you're trying to keep it alive!