We often joke and claim we suffer from the High Fidelity Syndrome. This is not a well known term, I know, so I’ll explain. It’s based on the character of Rob Gordon (from Nick Hornby’s book “High Fidelity”). One symptom of the syndrome is to grade people on the basis of their music taste. Furthermore, you make mix-tapes and mix-CDs to people as a challenge or compliment. I love doing this. However, it’s often just to make people happy. And I’m not a complete music nazi, am I?
Anyways, the step from giving a CD to a friend to giving one to a complete stranger is pretty darn big, isn’t it? Yesterday I gave a really good collection to a girl in a grocery store downtown, simply because she’s always happy and gets me in a good mood whenever I go shopping. So, thanx for that. I hope you like it. You’ve been my hero of late.
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