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October 4th, 2004 by mike d. in A Day In The Life...

I dialed a local radio station during their blues show with the intent of requesting some Stevie Wonder. I called and it started ringing. I figured “hey, I’ll just let it keep ringing until someone picks up. then, I’ll be able to make my request.” so I let it ring.
about four […]

I dialed a local radio station during their blues show with the intent of requesting some Stevie Wonder. I called and it started ringing. I figured “hey, I’ll just let it keep ringing until someone picks up. then, I’ll be able to make my request.” so I let it ring.

about four to five minutes passed, but I really wanted to here some Stevie, so I let it keep ringing. Finally someone picked up.

“WCCC, you’re Caller 1″
::Click::
“Waaait I just wanted to hea–”

useless.

Caller 6, Bob from Manchester CT, won two tickets to a blues show.

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2 Comments »

Comment by jon abad |
2004-10-04 16:07:21

That’s poor form.
Proper procedure is to clear the lines when the contest starts so that they can actually figure out who called when.

 
Comment by Joe |
2004-10-04 19:18:50

Yeah, I agree with Jon, they definatly should have hung up on you.

 
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