Radio Show

Friday afternoon I was sitting at my desk at work harvesting my crops on my facebook farmville and chatting with my coworkers before we all left early for the day. Everyone knows that working past noon on a Friday is dumb.

So we're discussing the artistic genius of Miley Cyrus's hit song Party in the USA when the main phone line rings. Obviously, it is annoying that a client is calling during an office meeting but I volunteer to take one for the team and answer.

Now let me preface this with a little sidenote. We deal with some weirdos. I'm sure anyone with a big kid job, particularly in sales, can attest to the fact that there are some weird people out there and your job as an employee is to act like whatever they say isn't weird.

So when I answer the phone and the voice on the other end sounds like a cross between a recording, a gameshow host and a radio personality my first instinct is to be polite and professional. So our conversation goes like this.... (keep in mind I am horrible at remembering conversations)

Me: "Daily Newspaper Advertising, This is Tessa."
Weirdo: "Hello, did you say this is Tessa?"
Me: "Yes it is how can I help you"
Weirdo: "Well Tessa, can you tell me, is this the student paper at State University?
Me: "Yes it is."
Weirdo: "Now are you printing a paper tomorrow?"
Me: "Yes we are, but our deadline for insertion was actually Wednesday."
Weirdo: "That's great now I want to put an ad on the front page of your paper."
Me:"OK."
Weirdo: "Do you still have a paper running tomorrow?"
Me: "Ya."
Weirdo: "Can you put this on the front page?" [Proceeds to play an excerpt from the song We Will Rock You over the phone line]
Me: [Thinks.... wtf?] "Um..." 'Awkward Laugh'
Weirdo: "Tessa do you even realize we're playing you in a football game tomorrow?"
Me: "Ya, of course!" [Reality starts to set in and I begin to realize what this conversation reminds me of, then I get a little shy....]
Weirdo: [Plays second, shorter excerpt of same We Will Rock You song]
Me: 'awkward laugh'
Weirdo: "Well Tessa sorry we missed your deadline but you've been a huge help, you keep up the good work and we'll see you at the game tomorrow!"

So I hang up the phone and look up to see all of my coworkers looking at me. What was up with that conversation? Well I'll tell you what's up.

Somewhere in Austin, Texas there is a radio station punking little school newspaper employees and getting really lame material to play over the air.