No. 89 - RADIO STATION

From age 8½ to 10½ my parent's owned a milk bar (the good old kind), and our neighbours were the local radio station. There was no better advertising than my Dad running next door with a couple of freshly made "burgers with the lot", opening the studio door and tossing them in to the radio hosts.

Maybe it was kind of a return favour, or maybe it was just that they needed some kids they didn't have to pay, but one day my brother and I were asked to do a radio advertisement. It was for The Sweet House, a new lolly shop opening up in town. Did these people know me, or did they know me? At the time I was the only one out of Shane and I that could read, so I got the gig. My "radio Dad" sounded anything but impressed but I did the best I could. Little Shane got the big finale "The Sweet House is really great!"

Doing a radio advertisement is one of those tick the box cool things to do in one's life. I think for me it means a little more to me these days as I have a secret burning ambition to do the voice of an animated character in a movie - one of those bucket list wishes.

I remember taking the tape into school and the teachers opening up all the partitions that separated out our 4 or so 3rd grade classes. They played the tape to everyone and they had to guess who's voice it was. Of course everyone guessed it was the "cool girl", but no, it was little old me.