Story #5: Plywood Under My Rear End and more....

I've done my share of messing with people while they were on mike. I've crawled on the floor and untied their shows, pulled on their pants leg, pushed their chair, tried to pull their copy away ("copy" is what they're reading over the air), turned the lights off while they were reading copy over the air, made faces at them, and thrown things at them (mostly chips and pretzels), while they were on mike. (Now, look -- don't think badly of me -- all this was done to me, and more! It was pretty common then for us to do stuff like that!)

One day, at the Christian music station in Houston, I was filling in for the weekday afternoon guy. I was doing my last break (weather) at about 10 minutes before 4, when the guy who was on from 4-7 came up behind me and started trying to shove a small piece of plywood between my posterior and the chair I was sitting in!

When I didn't laugh and mess up my break, he kept shoving the board, and then started jerking my chair! I lost it, and busted up laughing over the air. Thankfully, our boss wasn't listening to that fouled-up break!


Fr. Francis