"You
Might Be In Radio If...."
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you can tell what time it
is when listening to the radio even if they don't give the time.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you aren't a sports fan but
you know who won and when they play next.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...
you turn up the radio excitedly at the sound of dead air on your competitor's station.
YOU MIGHT BE
IN RADIO IF... you have 37 unlabeled 15 minute cassettes in your back seat.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you listen to the radio "invertedly",
turning up the volume during promos, sweeper, and talksets, and flipping to another
station during music.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you hate everyone's favorite
song because it doesn't have an intro.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......You find yourself talking
to yourself all the time to see how you sound.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you tell someone you plan to
go to lunch "coming up next hour".
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......two days off in a row is considered
a "long weekend."
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you've ever heard of a “cart”.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you have lived in six cities
in eight years
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you kicked the transmitter
up to 50,000 Watts at night just so your friends to the south could hear you (even if it was just for a few minutes)...
YOU MIGHT BE
IN RADIO IF... you drive around aimlessly looking for an unlit 4 tower array just to see it.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......You get excited at sunset
and drive by the towers just to hear the phase shift
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you have 125 unopened CDs you'll
never listen to but, never more than $3 cash.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have dozens of tapes of
radio stations that play music you don't like.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you listen to a station that's
barely coming in.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you know at just what mile
marker a certain station will/will not come in.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you forgot what kind you music
you like, but instead like songs because they sound good after the jingle.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you begin to like the music
you are playing even though you have been faking it for years.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have copies of both the
album version and radio edit.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you have recurring nightmares
about bad airshifts filled with dead air.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF......you interview the governor
and drive off in a junker.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you begin to like the music
you are playing even though you have been faking it for years.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you can run to the can, drop
a load while smoking a cigarette and make it back for the last 15 seconds of a 4 min. song.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you know how long it takes you
to take a dump by song title.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... every time you screw up the
Program Director is listening and calls in to tell you how bad you are and he misses the 4 hours of dead air your idiot co-worker
had.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... you're called 10 minutes before
a shift starts and told you have to work it and you live 20 minutes away
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF..... you can recite all the spots
in a break.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF... the equipment at your station
decides to stop working properly and just go to hell on a holiday weekend when no one can be reached.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....when your at home and you answer
the phone and give the stations call letters.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you answer the phone and tell
someone their caller #6
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF....you do an air shift in your
dreams.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...on a holiday weekend, you're
the only one at the station.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you have ever taped a boring
conversation with someone and turned it into something funny.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you can hit the post on any ramp
in your playlist, but can only sing the hooks from songs that are in your music promos.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you have a CD player in your
car, but no tape deck, and are mad! (Because you can't listen to your aircheck from that day).
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...you are well into your thirties
and have been hit on by a 13-year-old girl on the request line.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...when you think of your fantasy
girl or guy it is always someone in a band - not a movie star.
YOU MIGHT BE IN RADIO IF...two months ago when you worked
at the car wash you could jog a mile without being out of breath and now it is tough for you to get from your car to the LazEboy.