I frequently get calls and emails from listeners hoping that I can help them find the name or the artist of a song--a song they heard two years ago. Two years seems to be the general amount of time it takes a public radio listener to hear, contemplate, and take action on finding an answer.
This aggravates me. It makes me anxious. It means my brain works very differently than other brains. I don't even know how old I was two years ago. I certainly don't have memories of a song--memories that I can pinpoint to Christmas Eve two years ago.
If there was a song that I wanted to find more information about I would call that day, or that week. Beyond that week it is off my radar. How can someone have that task on their mental To-Do list for two years?
It's also frustrating because I can never answer these questions. We don't keep playlists of our shows for that long. So these listeners have waited for two years for their answer and they are not going to get it. All that wasted energy.
0 comments:
Post a Comment