Philly Today

Yesterday, I ended up winning a prize for answering a trivia question. I was listening to a local Philly radio show as I usually do on my daily morning commute. I hadn’t tried to call into the show before, and the prize I won was a DVD for a television show that I have never watched and truthfully don’t ever plan on watching. So why did I call? Because in that split second, I had this impulse to do it because I was so happy that I knew the answer, without even thinking. It’s rare that I get it so quickly, if at all. So I called in, waited on hold, then made it onto the radio for the first time since my “indie” college DJ’ing days. And I won, so that was a great start to my day.

Then I remembered that there are people who do this kind of thing for fun. About 10 years ago, I worked at a place where everyday we would call in to try to win the same radio contest. You had to identify seven classic rock songs by listening to a (very) short clip of each song one after another. We had two guys who were music buffs and they would tape record the series of clips and then rewind and write down song titles as fast as they could. At one point, we must have won five different prizes in a two-week span. Well, actually it was the two guys who won the contest, but a different co-worker had to pretend to call in each day because you can only win a prize once a month. Come to think of it, now I am ineligible to win another trivia prize for the next 30 days. I hope they aren’t giving away anything that I actually want.

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