The greatest thing a man can do is ask for help. Men rarely ask, and tonight I had a friend ask. Some people would consider it a sign of weakness. I consider it a sign of strength. People who have the fortitude and heart to ask for help sometimes know what they need to do, but they need someone to push them to help them forward.
But my goal is to help…
because if I help others, in turn I will be helped myself.
Ready to make a difference?
I’ve going to start on my work for the CMN Radiothon in the morning, one of the best charity fundraisers that I have EVER been a part of.
And part of me is scared. Scared that we won’t raise enough money for this great hospital.
But when it is all said and done, if I do my best, I can truly be proud of my work.
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Today’s topic is perspective. At work today I got a call from a listener that just fits everything I’ve been talking about recently.
“Hello Sean, I won Monster Truck tickets, but you never told me to pick them up, so I didn’t so I want tickets to the next concert that comes into town.”
HUH Are you kidding me, this winner was with me and I told her the same thing I told the rest, pick the tickets up on Friday. Now it’s OVER A WEEK AFTER the Monster Trucks were in town. When I told her that I would be unable to accommodate her request and offered her dinner and some t-shirts she screamed at the top of her lungs she said to me :
“Fuck you, I’ll never listen to you ever again.”
She got mad because I didn’t agree with her and in the end she took her ball and went home. Is this my fault, no. Did I offer a substitute prize? Yes! But she was so blinded, by not getting what SHE WANTED, that her fit and hanging up on me didn’t bother me at all. Ten years ago, I’d be shaken. I’d be worried about that one person. What happened if she determined the ratings of my station. OH NO!
But I realize now that I can’t control her actions. I can’t control that she didn’t pick up her tickets. I can take responsibility for calling her week of the show reminding her to pick up the tickets, I can take responsibility for even having her tickets with me at the event waiting for her. I can’t take responsibility for her not picking them up.
That’s what years in radio have given me, perspective. Instead of worrying about what I can’t control, the actions of other people and how when they don’t get the results that THEY want, I worry about how I can deliver results to them.
It doesn’t matter if she got mad and took her ball home.
I’ve got other friends to play with.
And for the record, her ball sucked.
Categories: Instant Comedy, Work Tags: Entertainment, listener, Monster Truck, Perspective, Tickets, Work
More upcoming pieces of fun : -)
Thank You… am I your bitch?
Loving life, living the dream.
Don’t sweat the petty stuff, Don’t pet the sweaty stuff.
“If your job consists of wearing a giant pizza hat, you’ve probably have made a serious career wrong turn.”
“I’m working your motor, bitch.”
“Somewhere… a janitor is crying” -Sean
“I’m listening to an old drunk guy take a piss one drop at a time.”
“That’s two devil’s and a douche…”
“Look, there is a man with a muskrat on his face…”
“We can show them our gun but we are not giving them the bullet”
“I’m a man I can’t help it”
“Well son, you can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see what fills up first.”
“Between the hailstone and the Tornaders, they must hate us in Oklahoma”
“Awwww, your little drink is soo cute, what are you compensating for?”
“I got wacked by a dumb chick in pink.”
Categories: "Quotes", Instant Comedy Tags: Conversational, My Writing..., Quick, Quotes, Writing Challenge
So while watching a television show last night their was a dog bark. I looked at the dogs and watched both Keegan and Aengus ears pop up. They immediately ran to the window and started to bark at the “invisible dog.”
Now traditionally there is a rule in the house not to taunt the dog, which originated with Mugsy. Joe Woodyard , one of my best friends, always liked to ring the doorbell and make Mugsy go crazy and barking.
“Do not taunt the dog!” I would sternly tell him.
But tonight I couldn’t help myself.
Over and over again I replayed the “invisible barking dog” on the TV and they spent ten minutes trying to find the dog.
Joanna wasn’t amused.
However…
I taunted the dog.
I think Mugsy and Joe would have liked it.
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Folks, we had our shot at UT this year and though we didn’t win , we at least didn’t finish dead last in the Big 12 South. It was a year where we wanted to take two steps forward and yet we took two steps back.
Yes, my friends, I bet against the Red Raiders.
You see I knew that I would LOVE them to win by more than 9 and the gifts that I would have to pay my wife would be mere inconvenience to me.
But my heart wasn’t there. How many Red Raider fans showed up to the game? Probably more than the Northwestern Wildcats for sure, but they didn’t show up as they had in the past. Maybe it was almost having to be bowl qualified by the use of a FBS win that spurred the alumni. Maybe it was the $75 ticket prices that hurt them too. Maybe that the students didn’t get a discounted rate hurt. If I was someone who paid $75 and heard about the discounting to $25 that the bowl officials made before game time, I’d be asking for my money back.
I wanted to go to the game. I just didn’t think I would get any decent seats even at $75. Boy, I was wrong. ESPNU knew this game was going to be a disappointment by the camera angles that showed mostly full portions of the stadium. Anytime someone looked at the end zones they showed what really was happening, empty seats. Why did the empty seats happen? Because they overpriced an 11:00 A.M. game between 2 7-5 schools. I thought a ticket broker would have known better.
Was I disappointed about not going to the Ticket City Bowl?
No, it was this season. It didn’t feel like football at all during the season. We faced our arch-nemesis’ and got beat down by both A&M and UT. We won games against Colorado and Missouri that Coach Leach could never get done.
But the season didn’t feel like fall. It went from summer to winter and there was no falling leaves or anticipation of the game day experience.
It fell flat this year.
But 2011 is a new year and we have the spring to look forward to. We will be looking at a new starting QB with a tough opening game away versus TCU before home stints with New Mexico and Nevada before hitting the Big 10 play, I mean 12. Sorry, ironic that we only have 10 and we still call ourselves 12, never mind.
I am looking forward to seeing year 2 of the four year plan.
Because every coach has 4 years to see his recruits come in and make an impact. Some people think that we have a top 30 recruiting class this year. I’ll believe it in 2013-2014 when the freshman that will enter in the fall of 2011 come back as Juniors making an impact on the Big 12.
Yes, we won but didn’t cover. And yes, my wife is doing dishes as we speak penalty for her flawed optimism of a 7-5 team.
But I have optimism for 2011.
Either that or I can wait for hell to freeze over.
Categories: Instant Comedy, Sports, What's on my mind Tags: Bowl Game, Football, Texas Tech, Texas Tech Football, Ticket City Bowl
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