Why I Don't Listen To The Radio

In my current vehicle, there is no way of hooking my iPod up to the radio system to listen to it through the speakers, so driving into work in the morning, I'm stuck with the radio. I had bought an FM transmitter, but it was cheap and within a few months, it stopped working. My radio has 10 preset buttons so that I can set myself up for 10 stations without turning the dial. Me being who I am, I have a range of different styles preset, so that I can flip around to each of them based on my mood at the time. Or that's the idea.

What I really use all those preset buttons for is to look for a station that is playing music. You see, radio stations have this weird idea that in the morning, you only want to hear one song and then listen to the DJs chatter followed by five minutes (at least) of commercials. I want to hear wall-to-wall music. DJs of the world, no one (or at least me) wants to hear about your home life, how hard it is for you to get out of bed, your kids, your drive to work, your opinions on anything, or you try to give some semblance of a news report with your "hilarious" but ultimately idiotic comments. And I'm not interested in your morning comedy routines either. I just want to hear the music.

I wasn't kidding about one song. On most mornings, I'll start with one station that might or might not be playing a song, and once I hear the talking, I start flipping. I usually have to cycle through 3 or 4 stations before I settle on the station that plays everything all the time, since they don't seem to have DJs to ruin the music with their talking.

That's my vent of frustration this morning. If you read my other post, you can see I'm not in the best of moods.