You Know You're An Aging Radio DJ If...
You excitedly turn the radio up at the sound of "dead air" on the competitor's station...
Sales guys wore Old Spice to cover the smell of liquor...
You were playing Elvis' number one hits when he was alive...
Engineers could actually fix things without sending them back to the manufacturer...
You worked for only ONE station, and you could actually name the guy who owned it...
You remember when only "hippies" listened to FM...
Radio stations used to have enough on-air talent to field a softball team every summer...
You're at least 10 years older than the last two GM's who fired you...
You know the difference between good reel-to-reel tape and cheap reel-to-reel tape....
You have a white wax pencil, a razor blade, and a spool of 3M splicing tape in your desk drawer - just in case...
You know people who actually listened to baseball games on the radio...
You can post a record, run down the hall, go to the bathroom, and be back in 2:50 for the segue...
You still refer to CDs as "records"...
You've been married at least 3 times, or, never married at all...
You answer your home phone with the station call letters....
You have several old air-check cassettes in a cardboard box in your closet that you wouldn't dream of letting anyone hear anymore, but, you'll never throw them out or tape over them... Never!
You have a couple of old transistor radios around the house with corroded batteries inside them....
You were a half an hour late for an appearance and blamed it on the directions you received from the sales person....
You've run a phone contest and nobody called, so you made up a name and gave the tickets to your cousin...
People who ride in your car exclaim, "Why is your radio so loud?" ...
You remember when people actually thought radio was important...
(The source for this is unknown. It is freely circulating on the Internet.)
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