The Hits' Adam Green's week of a nagging one-track mind

The Hits host Adam Green ponders our ability to remember.

Working at a radio station you get to hear a LOT of music. And sometimes that music gets stuck in your head.

Do you remember the last time you had an ear worm?

Those songs that get stuck on repeat in the jukebox of your brain, and it's never the whole song, it's a tiny bit.

Half a chorus, the start of a verse, maybe the diddle ai's from the end of Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl.

I remember mine, because for the last week as I drag myself out of bed and off to the bathroom I've had "Deeessssspacito" ringing out again and again!

As I smeared toothpaste on my brush and splashed cold water on my face in a somewhat futile effort at escaping the previous night's slumber, a thought crossed my mind.

Just how much space is taken up in that brain of mine by somewhat useless song lyrics and information?

Beginning the regular search for the keys I should have placed somewhere accessible but mindlessly placed in a space long since forgotten, I wondered why, instead of storing the rap from the 90s cartoon Captain Planet, I didn't use that brain space more productively.

Remembering where I put the keys last night would be so much more beneficial than being able to sing "we're the planateers, you can be one too, 'cause saving our planet is the thing to do!"

Out the door and off to the car, I wondered what I had on for the day. Is the staff meeting today or tomorrow? Do we even have one this week?

"Never mind that," says the grey matter that is my personal on-board computer, "how about we try to remember the Snorks theme?"

From start to finish.

"Come along with the snorks, swim along with the snorks."

After two quick cups of coffee I'm ready to start my work day. It's time to knuckle down, focus ...

Wait, what is Shaggy-Bombastic doing in my suggested YouTube videos? Great song! "She call me Mr Bombastic, Say me fantastic ... "

After making it through another working day, it's time to pick up the kids from school and head to ballet. Or is it Jazz? No wait, does the big one have piano?

Who knows? I guess I'll ask them when I pick them up.

Why must I struggle to retain the important stuff, I wonder.

Meanwhile I might just pop the radio on. "Deeeeespacito!"

* Don't miss Adam Green and Sarah van der Kley on The Hits Hawke's Bay from 6am to 9am Monday to Friday.