Joke's on me
May. 29th, 2004 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rickvsThe radio station whose contests I enter most frequently has a game on Friday that is fairly easy to win ...if you can get through their phone lines. You call them with a one-line joke, and if none of the DJs knows the punchline, you get whatever DVD or gift certificate they're giving away that day.
The game starts at the same time each morning, so just as the closing bars of the last song were playing, I hit the speed-dial on my phone, and asked the call screener if it was too early to call in with my joke. He told me to go ahead -- so I told my joke, and he said, "...Nice." And hung up.
I immediately started grumbling to myself -- "My joke wasn't good enough for them, hm? I know they're busy, but at least they could drop the hammer politely..."
A few minutes later, I had a nasty thought and checked my cell phone's call record.
I had called the wrong radio station.
The game starts at the same time each morning, so just as the closing bars of the last song were playing, I hit the speed-dial on my phone, and asked the call screener if it was too early to call in with my joke. He told me to go ahead -- so I told my joke, and he said, "...Nice." And hung up.
I immediately started grumbling to myself -- "My joke wasn't good enough for them, hm? I know they're busy, but at least they could drop the hammer politely..."
A few minutes later, I had a nasty thought and checked my cell phone's call record.
I had called the wrong radio station.
