A kind of background music (BGM) played in supermarkets, shopping malls, factories, or some offices.
It's the end of the workday, and the traffic's very bad, so getting to the store takes way longer than it should, and when you finally get there the supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all the other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store's hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out. -- This is water. David Foster Wallace.
by chuckchen June 17, 2018
by mick_aka October 10, 2007