Story #4: Water On the Air

I had the privilege of working several full-time radio jobs over the years. At the country station I was at when i had the apartment fire, I worked the midnight shift (12-6) during the week, and Saturday nights 6p-12a.

Our Program Director my boss, who was a great guy and easy to work for, would typically show up late on Saturday nights (after eating good Mexican food!) and hang out for a while. One Saturday night, it was a couple of minutes to 12, and I was doing my last break. Usually I wear my headphones -- because when you open the microphone, it cuts off the monitors--so you can't hear anything going out over the air. Headphones allow you to hear what is going out over the air. Well, I was tired that night, ready to get off, so I did the break without the headphones. I was nearly finished with the weather when I felt ice cold water coming down on my head!

My boss dumped an ice-cold picture of water on my head ! (If I had my headset on, of course he wouldn't have done it.) I tried to not say anything over the mike, but there was no way! Of course I busted up laughing over the air, told our audience what was going on, and then he started laughing, too. I finished the break and closed the mike, and the next element in programming aired.

More to come.

Fr. Francis