It should first be noted that my stereo could be accurately described by any given antonym to "pimped out" - in fact, I'm *missing* a speaker.
But anyway.
I had just gone to Deseret Book (a local Mormon-oriented chain of bookstores which happen to sell a bunch of other cool stuff) to pick up the new Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD. They were running this promotion where if you bought the one CD, they'd give you this other 6-track CD for free. So I'm all, SCORE, and I was listening to the 6-track one (which came in a paper envelope) in the car because I didn't want to get the stupid packaging off the new one.
Now, anyone who has ever listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir knows that they're backed up by one of the biggest, most incredibly powerful organs on God's green earth. It has 11,623 pipes, 5 manuals, and 170 stops.
So here I am at this stoplight, windows rolled down, stereo turned up pretty good (the last song was pretty quiet), and the organ lets loose with the opening fanfare of God Of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand. I would bet you that a solid 80% of the stops were pulled, because man, the sound from that organ could wake the righteous dead.
Of course, I was right next to an old granny. :D
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