In the mornings the condo clock-radio gives me an hour of kiss FM to wake up to. It’s the john-jay emmerich (or something) show, which is the merkin equivalent to Steve Wright (the uk 80’s DJ, not the US comedian) in the afternoon. There are two quite funny guys and a girl who is basically their patsy, poor thing. This morning they were having a big hoo-hah because of her conduct at the weekend. She had become pregnant at 15 and thus missed out on a lot of childhood stuff blah blah… anyway that weekend she’d got the opportunity to go out for once and she’d gone out and some bartender had happily served her 13 tequilas. She ended up getting stretchered out of the club, at which her employers, the radio show, were presenting something or other. The big discussion was whether she should lose her job or not. People were phoning in and saying “what you did was WRONG ok?” etc. Cos it was giving out a bad message to the kids etc. Nobody expressed sympathy for the girl, and nobody pointed out that getting stretchered out of a nightclub in full public view sends a pretty strong anti-drink message…
Anyhow. Then they moved on. The next feature was a phone-in “What is the biggest crime you’ve gotten away with?” the callers variously stole $17000 from the security firm they worked for, got away with counts of grand theft auto, and got away with running from the police in their car… But at least none of them were DRINKING.