OK, my dad has always had this habit of whistling....very loudly, very clearly, and the same tuneless musical phrase over and over. I'm soon to return to the States but am currently upstairs with the door shut and earplugs jammed in my ears because otherwise I might commit patricide.
Anyway. It set me thinking, this dreadful, repetitive whistling....He is the only person I ever hear whistle, and he's coming up 74. Do you whistle? Do your friends and colleagues? Or Is it a generational thing? My mother's mother used to whistle. It would never occur to me to go round whistling, and I've never heard my husband whistle either.
Is whistling now something that only people of grandparental age do? Or are we a national of warblers, and I just never notice it? I'm not talking about wolf-whistling at others, I'm talking about whistling a musical phrase....over, and over, and over, in this house anyway...
Anyway. It set me thinking, this dreadful, repetitive whistling....He is the only person I ever hear whistle, and he's coming up 74. Do you whistle? Do your friends and colleagues? Or Is it a generational thing? My mother's mother used to whistle. It would never occur to me to go round whistling, and I've never heard my husband whistle either.
Is whistling now something that only people of grandparental age do? Or are we a national of warblers, and I just never notice it? I'm not talking about wolf-whistling at others, I'm talking about whistling a musical phrase....over, and over, and over, in this house anyway...