Complaint choirs attract participants and adherents from all sectors.  So why not us?  Single 50-plus women looking to date mature single men have grumbles enough for several songbooks, even a full-scale opera.  If we get together now, we’ll be in the vanguard, because so far, these groups are regional. Ours would be hormonal.       

Regional quirks are part of the fun attached to complaint choirs. The Helsinki choir sings about saunas and deforestation (“we’re cutting down old trees to make toilet paper – and then you can never find the stuff when you need it”). Philadelphia’s crew asserts that “New Jersey drivers can’t drive or park.” Chicago’s jazzy group is wary of drunken Cubs fans and cries that “obese urban monster squirrels decimate my backyard tomato crop.” Jerusalem’s choir sings of Israel’s agriculture and its devotion to high tech: “Bananas are never at the right stage of ripeness,” and “I work for the computer instead of it working for me.”

TUNES, NOT TRAUMA

Budapest complaints are heavy on the vicissitudes of mass transit, and Singapore’s banned-in-public choir offers…