My First Call

[MichelleinGB]

I was so shy to call in, but Tom made it all cool.
I only discovered Tom's show about two months ago, but have since logged in a good 50 hours listening to the archives.
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This is also my 'Hello' to the FOT message board community.  Hope ya'll don't tell me to 'Get off our board!'

 

Sounds like you and I are at roughly the same level of Best Show newbie-ness...though you have me beat in archives homework.  I feel like I have work to do before I make my first call! 

The Best Show is clearly serious business, and since we've been warned that There Will Be GOMPs, I must prepare accordingly. 

But I will call one day. 

Oh, yes.  I will call.

[henry]

i don't remember my first call.  the second was around 2:00. 

i called about being in new brunswick.  but apparently it sounded like i didn't like the spinach pies at evelyns (this is what call screener mike told me).  which couldn't be further from the truth.  so i called back to get my topic subject in, but was gomp'd for losing my cool at an old man.  i haven't listened to the show yet and i wasn't listening that night, so i don't know the exact reason for getting gomp'd.  i would like to add that the story ends with me aplogizing to the people i had lost my cool at.

gomp'd twice in a night.  for shame. 

I listened to the entire show today at work, so those calls are very fresh in my mind.

I thought that was the best of the stories (the cat/oven story was pretty wacky too), and that you were unfairly knocked both times:

1) I think he must have misheard you on the spinach pies.  I heard your comment as something like, "just had a quick lunch there, had a spinach pie--"  Click.

2) You admitted you lost your cool, and seems you barely touched the truck.  And your 'losing it' was after getting endlessly, drunkenly reamed at.  He made you look like the worst person in the world.  But I think his summation was comparable to one of his 'unfair record reviews.'

And I think Tom threw in a knock on our Chicago hot dogs.  To me, that's the best cheap food ever.  Awesome loaded vienna dog and fries for $2.25 around the corner (were $1.25 when I moved here).

Just listened to the podcast and I agree with Fig Neutron, henry.  Those were 2 undeserved GOMPS but sometimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Good calls.

thanks