I revise what I said in my previous post about the low frequency of calls in the pledge room. Starting on Tuesday, the phones lit up and became much more lively than the winter pledge drive. The afore mentioned terror-excitement quickly dissipated in the face of a flood like this.
One of the best parts about volunteering is meeting fellow listeners who are also donating their time and energy. Turns out, we are a beautiful and hilarious bunch of people. Here is a picture of some of us (my face is not visible, but that's me in the black shirt under the red arrow).
One of us took a call at one point from a cable guy who we later decided was probably stoned. We figured he was hanging out installing cable at someone's house, smoked a joint, turned on KEXP, and decided to call in. He actually said on the phone "Do you wanna buy some Comcast?" You get some weird people on the phones, but they are few and far between.
Even on a busy day, there is still down time, which we pass by writing lists (I have mentioned before). These are good conversation generators. Someone writes a topic upon the back of an on-air comment sheet, then we pass it around and everyone writes down their top 3 film soundtracks or top 3 Canadians (actually, we changed the latter to comedians when we realized that we have no favorite Canadians [just kidding, Canada. We love you]). Also, sometimes we draw pictures.
That says "Just Like Honey" by Dan Howes.
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