I admit it. I ...

[Ace]

Chance to confession your failings.

For example, I truly do not know the red state-blue state thing. Not sure which is supposed to be Republican and which Democrat.

Gray states I got. Maybe I am politically colorblind.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Thought for years that "awry" was pronounced "AWE-ree."

Have tried since I was a kid to do the one arched eyebrow thing and can't do it.

Once lost a $20 pot in poker because I mistook the 2 of clubs for the 2 of spades.

 

[Songbird]

Won about a grand one night in Vegas, got ****ed-drunk, went back down at 1 a.m. and lost it all in a few hands at the blackjack table.

Pierced my nipples for a girl only to have us split ways soon after.

More (many more) to come ...

 

[justgladtobehere]

Who was the tv reporter who said 'aw-ree' during a sideline interview? It was some prominent woman.

 

[da man]

Don't give a ****.

 

[Buck]

This seems supsiciously similar to the poor choices thread ...

 

[LongTimeListener]

... DON'T want to work hard.

 

[JC]

... DON'T want to work hard.

Baron?

 

[Steak Snabler]

This one is related to our industry, and I'm curious to see if anyone else has this problem:

I hate, hate, hate making cold calls to sources when working on stories, even if it's not hard news and especially if it's someone I don't know personally. I'm the kind of person who likes to be left alone, and I have to psyche myself out to make those calls sometimes.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I failed out of college twice.

 

[Ace]

This seems supsiciously similar to the poor choices thread ...

It's an HOMAGE.

 

[Ace]

This one is related to our industry, and I'm curious to see if anyone else has this problem:

I hate, hate, hate making cold calls to sources when working on stories, even if it's not hard news and especially if it's someone I don't know personally. I'm the kind of person who likes to be left alone, and I have to psyche myself out to make those calls sometimes.

I hated that too. Hell, I don't even call my parents all that often.

But one of the things you just suck it up and do.

 

[Buck]

It's an HOMAGE.

Is this what the comic book nerds call a retcon, or would it be a reboot?

 

[MisterCreosote]

This one is related to our industry, and I'm curious to see if anyone else has this problem:

I hate, hate, hate making cold calls to sources when working on stories, even if it's not hard news and especially if it's someone I don't know personally. I'm the kind of person who likes to be left alone, and I have to psyche myself out to make those calls sometimes.

I once ended up on the prominent-person-dies or regular-person-dies-in-spectacle obituary beat for a few months. Nothing like calling grieving relatives for comment the day their loved one dies.

The worst was trying to get comments from parents whose kids just died. That was a thousand times worse than anything I saw on the police beat.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

am sometimes a bad father.

(At least according to my wife.)

 

[SFIND]

This one is related to our industry, and I'm curious to see if anyone else has this problem:

I hate, hate, hate making cold calls to sources when working on stories, even if it's not hard news and especially if it's someone I don't know personally. I'm the kind of person who likes to be left alone, and I have to psyche myself out to make those calls sometimes.

Yes I hate it, but texting makes it a lot better for me. I feel I'm much less intrusive if I text first (and explain who I am if it's a cold call to someone I don't already know) and ask if it's a good time to talk.

However on some breaking news stories (most recently a the hire of a football coach at our biggest school) where my concern fades and I blow up every possible phone number I have/can find.

 

[da man]

am sometimes a bad father.

(At least according to my wife.)

Should have learned from Doggie Daddy.

 

[jr/shotglass]

... always thought the lyric in "Take It Easy" was, "Looking for a lover who won't blow my brother."

 

[Batman]

This one is related to our industry, and I'm curious to see if anyone else has this problem:

I hate, hate, hate making cold calls to sources when working on stories, even if it's not hard news and especially if it's someone I don't know personally. I'm the kind of person who likes to be left alone, and I have to psyche myself out to make those calls sometimes.

Glad I'm not alone in feeling that way. Most of the time when I make those calls, I'm sitting there praying it'll go to voice mail so I can leave a message and they can call me back when they're in a mood to talk. One of the reasons I'm thankful for the rise of text messaging.

 

[bigpern23]

Glad I'm not alone in feeling that way. Most of the time when I make those calls, I'm sitting there praying it'll go to voice mail so I can leave a message and they can call me back when they're in a mood to talk. One of the reasons I'm thankful for the rise of text messaging.

I definitely thought I was alone in this. It's kind of an integral part of the job to cold call sources, yet I was never terribly comfortable with it. Of course, I hate talking on the phone with pretty much anyone.