Random Scare

The other night, I was walking around the store in the dark about to leave for the night. I had my iPod on shuffle. Up comes a song from Scott Walker's current terrifying album, The Drift. Just what you want to hear in a spooky old building with all the lights out. I fumbled to advance to the next track when I happened to glance down and see the glow in the dark ghost face cover of Chuck Pahliunuk's (sorry for the misspelling, Chuck) Haunted (The Haunting? The Haunted?). I nearly jumped out of my skin.

There's one of the problems with iPod shuffle. You've got difficult music on your iPod because of need? duty? compulsion? and then you're scared out of your wits at a vulnerable moment.