Someone’s mic wasn’t turned off quite in time …
I remember being 11 or 12, and, since my mom was a domestic goddess and I already spent plenty of time tagging along with my dad at work, my parents always came up with women with cool jobs for me to follow around for Take Our Daughters to Work Day. One year, I got to run around a hospital with a surgeon, and she took me to watch open-heart surgery, in the actual surgery room, not in a viewing gallery or anything. I just stood there like three feet from the patient and watched open-heart surgery, as a pre-teen, which I’m sure violated any number of laws. Anyway, I remember that, as they were lasering the heart shut, it smelled just like barbeque! I couldn’t eat a hamburger for a year.
One year, I hung out at a news station with a news anchor, and they let me sit in the studio for their 6 pm broadcast. And I was completely shocked by how much these people swore once the cameras were off. Seriously, they’d be all perky and adorable on camera, and the fucking millisecond those cameras stopped rolling, they were like “What the fuck was that bullshit??? Can’t you motherfuckers get the goddamn tape cued properly?” or like “Fuckin’ Christ, our President’s a goddamn moron” or “My fucking piece of shit mic is a fucking piece of shit.” It was an endless barrage of cursing. I came home both terribly disillusioned and absolutely fascinated.
I’m surprised shit like this doesn’t happen more often.
genius. the seconds of nothing after made it even better.
I’d still like to know, though, what the f*** was he/she doing and to whom?
I wonder if it had something to do w/ the guy underneath her desk fixing her mic cable.
hahahahaaa i LOVE cruise ships!! and awkward silences when somebody knows they’ve been re-corrded!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Man, I’d be embarrassed!
snorted with laughter