All she wanna do.... is plant a seed

I took a roadtrip to KL (Britney Spear's 'Crossroad' style) with Dailytoe and Mr. Greedy a couple of months ago.

A roadtrip is always the best way to get to know (or annoy) your travel companions. You are essentially stuck in a tiny moving cube for the next 376 kilometers. Unless you plan to play dead for the next 4 hours, you are basically in each other's face. There is no way out.

Dailytoe say that I am very irritating so she relegated me to the backseat. I counteract by propping myself up to the front and stuck my head between the driver (her) and the front-seat passenger (Mr. Greedy). I talked non-stop and sang along to whatever comes out of the boom box. Loudly. Into their ears.

They secretly love it, I know.

Mr. Greedy brought along an iPod and the ritual is, me and Dailytoe will take turns requesting for songs. It turns out that Mr. Greedy has every single song that we asked for. And I seriously mean every song : from Petshop Boys to Backside Boys (yalar, Backstreet) to Black Eyed Peas.

Being the long and big limbed giraffe that she is, Dailytoe dominated the whole song requests segment. She asked for songs from the dark ages, like Karen White ("Superwoman") and Charlene ("I've never been to me"), and belts them out from the bottom of her incapacitated giraffe lungs. It was heart wrenching listening to her.

By the time we reach Seremban, Mr. Greedy has played dead already. So it was just me and Dailytoe still bright-eyed and bushy tail from the adrenaline of cruising down PLUS Highway and laughing at the fake 'scarecrow' men (aimed to direct cars). It was about then this song came on:

It was a rainy night
When he came into sight,
Standing by the road,
No umbrella, no coat.

Recognise this? No?

So I pulled up alongside
And I offered him a ride.
He accepted with a smile,
So we drove for a while.
I didn't ask him his name,
This lonely boy in the rain.
Fate, tell me its right,
Is this love at first sight?
Please don't make it wrong,
Just stay for the night.

Still no? Ok, here is the dead give-away:

All I wanna do is make love to you
Say you will, You want me too
All I wanna do is make love to you
Ive got loving arms to hold on to

I had a mighty good laugh. I still remember this song from way back in my secondary school days. I began telling Dailytoe what a sluttish song it seemed back then before I knew what one-night stand means.

Dailytoe said this song holds more meaning than that. I gasp in disbelief. She ask me to listen very carefully:

So we found this hotel,
It was a place I knew well
We made magic that night.
Oh, he did everything right
He brought the woman out of me,
So many times, easily

"SLUT!!!" I screamed. Dailytoe shut me up and ask me to listen to more:

And in the morning when he woke
All I left him was a note
I told him:"I am the flower you are the seed
We walked in the garden, we planted a tree.
Don't try to find me, Please don't you dare
Just live in my memory,
You'll always be there"

"She is the MAN!" I exclaim excitedly. I was just thinking that this song is all about female empowerment when the punchline came:

Then it happened one day,
We came round the same way
You can imagine his surprise
When he saw his own eyes

"OH MY GAWD," I screamed. "She had his kid!"

I said "please, please understand
I'm in love with another man
And what he couldn't give me
Was the one little thing that you can"

"You mean she only did it to get pregnant? The guy she is with is infertile?????"

Dailytoe smirk.

We sang in unison (loudly):

All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got loving arms to hold on to

And with this new revelation, we move on to Spice Girls..... (no revelations there unfortunately).