Outed by iPod

I've never come out to my family. (I know, I know. There's really no excuse for that, so let the flogging begin.) It's not that I'm particularly worried about their reaction, but it's just never seemed like something that was necessary.

I'm sure they all "know" anyway. I'm a 41-year old, never-married, guy who hasn't had a girlfriend since college and is living with another guy. If that doesn't set off alarms in anyone's mind, I don't know what would.

So my sister was in town this weekend, and although I think she'd be the most understanding of everyone in the family, I've never wanted to have The Talk with her. I almost had to this weekend, though.

I started showing my new iPod to her, and she immediately wanted to check it out. She grabbed it out of my hands and said, "Oh cool! You can tell so much about a person from their iPod!" Uh-oh.

She started scrolling through the song list, and I kid you not, the first three songs (with shuffle mode turned on!) she heard were something from the original cast recording of Chicago, "Believe" by Cher, and "Dancing Queen" from the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert soundtrack.

Much to my surprise, she didn't say anything, although her eyes couldn't hide that momentary thought flittering through her head - "my big brother's a big homo and this just proves it."

I never knew that iPods had minds of their own, but I'm pretty sure mine does. Nothing else can explain why 3 gay anthems played before any of the other approximately 1270 normal songs.

Comments

[David]

Yeah, watch out for those iPods. I agree with your sister that you can tell a lot about a person based on what music they choose to immerse themselves with. Those three songs coming up on a grown man's playlist definitely say 'confirmed bachelor'.
I bet without seeing me though, people would think that I'm a teenaged girl with rage issues, so maybe it's not so reliable. Or maybe it is...

[Dave]

I guess if you downloaded the podcast of "Gay Sexcapades" (no joke) that would have been the icing on the cake.