I left work yesterday drained and more ready than ever to just go home and take a short nap — in a relatively bad mood. I was listening to KBEM Jazz 88 FM on my way home and something peculiar happened; something very out of the ordinary.

It’s not uncommon to get a little static now and then on the jazz station — they don’t have the strongest frequency — but this was unusual considering I was driving in Minneapolis, not that far from the station that I’d get static. What was unusual about this staticy sound, is that it had an unusual rhythmic quality to it that I just couldn’t place.

Well, the noise continued and became more and more clearly defined — crinkle crinkle crinkle… crunch crunch crunch…. crinkle crinkle crinkle…. crunch crunch crunch…

I thought to myself, “oh my gosh, did the DJ leave his microphone on???? ‘Cuz that sure sounds like someone eating chips into the microphone. All suspicions surrounding this bizarre occurrence were confirmed when I heard this cough…choke…cough sound as the guy choked on his chips!

I could hardly believe what I was hearing — so much so that I laughed nearly the whole way home over this episode. I called the studio line to have the DJ check his microphone, to which he basically said that Mike Marr (spelling?), the traffic guy, left his microphone on after the last traffic update. As embarrassing as it had to be for the two of them, it was a great pick-me-up for the drive home.

Thanks guys.

March 15, 2006, 11:10 am

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1. Jamison said,

   March 15, 2006 @ 2:37 pm

   Hahahaha…. Oh man, that is soooo funny.

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