What do you do with an earworm?

[capriuni]

Do you
A) seek out the offender, to listen to it again, and try to get over the hump (so to speak)

B) Seek out a completely different sound / song, to try and drive it out

C) Inflict it on your friends, in the hopes that once it infects their brains, it will leave yours alone

D) Scream.

E) Other.

PS. You know I have insomnia, because I stopped to make a new icon just for this post, before I even wrote it... :-/

Comments

[pebblerocker]

Oh, ALL of the above. Sometimes the homoeopathic treatment. Sometimes swallowing a spider to catch the fly -- and perhaps finding that the new earworm is worse. When all else fails, ruin my sister's day as well!

[capriuni]

Heh. The spider catching the fly was exactly the simile I was thinking of, when I wrote B. It actually comes from an old wives' tale, that to get rid of a song in your head, you just have to sing (or hum) it out loud until a passerby starts whistling. When you hear that, you know the tune has moved on.

Unfortunately, I can't hear if anyone else has picked it up, when I'm doing this via the Internet.

[jekesta]

I love your icon.

And I try anything, I sing it very loudly and badly, or I sing something else very loudly, or I just scream a bit yes.

[capriuni]

I love your icon.

Thank you. I'm a bit bothered (in niggling sort of way) that the single-color question marks have fuzziness around them, and aren't as clean as the big one. I have not decided if I'm bothered enough to redo it.

What's really frustrating, in a bemusing sort of way is when you try to get different songs in your head, and instead of one driving out the other, they play together, in a very weird counterpoint way (there's a musical word for that, but I can't be bothered to look up the right one, right now)