My carpooler is always getting music CDs from the local library so that we can listen to them on the way to work. Of course, he just loads them into the CD player and then goes to sleep. So, I get stuck driving and listening to the music he has selected. And, since most of the music we have never heard before, each CD is a new experience.

Well, the other morning, he loaded up a contemporary instrumental CD for my listening pleasure. The fourth track was an Avant Gard number that repeated the same phrase over and over again with a little variation each time that it played.

The song was OK but a little tedious. However, when it moved on to the fifth track, I heard the same musical phrasing. That is when I realized that the CD was defective.

I will let him listen to it on the way home while I sleep.