Archive for January 22nd, 2009

Airing Grandad

January 22nd, 2009

I had a mail the other day.  They wanted to know would I go on the radio.  I said OK, because I wasn’t planning on doing anything else. 

When I emailed them I asked them where they were located.  They mailed me back and said they were opposite the cemetery.

I mailed them in turn and asked it they had many deaths among their contributors but they said they didn’t have that many.

They asked me if I knew where the cemetery was.

I asked them if they meant the one opposite the radio studios, but they didn’t reply to that.

Anyway, this morning I went up there.  It was a very pleasant morning for a drive through the county for a change, as most mornings lately it has either been snowing or pissing rain.

I was right.  It was the cemetery opposite the studios, so having found that, I found the studios. 

In my previous incarnation, when I worked in RTE, I used to see people waiting to go on the radio.  I used to feel sorry for them because they all looked like they were waiting on death row.

Then I would get annoyed with them because they were always treated like royalty while the rest of us were treated like shit.

Today I was the royalty, so I dutifully looked down on the staff as I was whisked into the studio.

It was great craic in there.  We had a laugh for a while and the next thing I was thrown out the door.  It way have been the pipe smoke that annoyed them; I don’t know.

I didn’t hear the programme.

It was live so I couldn’t be at home to listen to it.

I will say one thing…

It was all so fucking easy.

Watch out Rick O’Shea.

I’m on the way up.