Have you ever been on the news or in the newspaper? I actually have been quoted about five or six times, a few when interviewed about the Delaware Shakespeare Festival back in the day, but a couple times about really odd stories that I know nothing about.
Take the other morning, walking to the Metro there was a camera crew set up on my path. They stopped Selena and I and asked if we had any trouble with the wind and rain last night. I told them we didn’t encounter and rain but I did notice it was windy when I walked the dog first thing this morning.
They asked me to describe the wind, and I was at a loss. I just told them I was surprised that there was a lot of wind out there. Selena mocked me as we left them for calling the wind “surprisingâ€, I insisted, that I gave them nothing of value, there is no way they would use my soundbite.
Eight hours later, I received this Google Alert:
The story is no longer on their site, and that’s a relief, because I sound like a buffoon, but I guess I can’t blame the ABC News. I did that myself by calling the wind surprising, and they just ran with it.
Hilarious!
Hahaha- I’m glad you felt like sharing your buffoonery with us even though you could just as easily have pretended like it never happened once the story was down, and presumably no one you knew had seen it… it was a nice laugh : )
p.s. In your defense, I feel like those on-the-scene reporters (especially in the case of weather-related stories) ask the most inane questions to begin with. I hate watching local news coverage. So, not entirely your fault you sounded silly!