So my company has a designated gas station a few block from our station that we fill our vans up at in the evenings after our routes. It's also a chance to clean out our trash, and get things ready to "debrief" back at the station.
Anyways... Yesterday was a complete shit show. A lot of our drivers wound up up in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is beautiful but every town is a pain in the fucking ass, and it's a good hour drive to and hour and a half drive back (traffic). My company doesnt regularly do a lot of routes up there.
During the drive back, while in traffic, I had the van windows down and was blasting my huge "every DT studio, live, and bootleg album on random" playlist I tend to listen to a lot now. Kept the windows down and music on full blast the entire way and pulled into a gas station full of my annoyed (at the routes we had) coworkers shooting the shit. A few of them asked me what I was listening to. I said "oh it's just Dream Theater"
And this chick, who's already a trip because she's totally anti social and not a people person but it's fun to chat with her because we totally feel the same way about hating people, pops her head out and says "oh shit. I love Dream Theater!" And asked what album I was listening to. Apparently she got big into DT back in the mid 2000s. Totally took my by surprise... And made my day