September 23, 2009

  • So, this one time I was on TV…

    …and it wasn’t exactly the most flattering moment of my life -_-

    Let me give you some back story.  Back in 2003, I was a junior in high school and apparently somebody in my class got infected with tuberculosis.  Yes, tuberculosis.  How did he get this rare disease?  I’m not sure if we ever found out, but needless to say there was some concerns that he may have accidentally infected others at school.  Luckily, only the passive version of the disease was passed on to some other students (including some of my friends), so after a few shots they were all better.  Fortunately for me I never got infected, so I didn’t have to worry about any of that.

    Anyway, one day I was waiting for my ride back home when some people from the local news station came up to me and asked if they could interview me about the tuberculosis story.  I’ve never been on television before, so I thought it would be pretty cool.  For the next 15 minutes, I answered a bunch of questions and gave some personal insights.  I’ll admit, I was a little nervous at the beginning, but as it went on I became calmer and was giving out pretty good answers.  When it was all said and done, they told me to expect it on the news later that evening. 

    I got back home and waited for the news story to pop up.  When it finally came, I got all excited to finally see myself on tv.  That excitement quickly went away when I realized 1) they only used a single sentence I said out of the entire 15 minute interview, and 2) they picked probably the dumbest answer I gave in that interview (while I was still a little nervous on top of that!).

    What exactly did I say?  Well…okay.  Even though this is really, really embarrassing, I’ll show you the video clip of the news story (BTW, please ignore my high school hair and the squinty eyes.  It was bright!):

    In case you couldn’t understand my stuttering, I said “I didn’t even know what T.B., what T.B. was until, until it just happened!”  *Goofy chuckle*

    URGH!!!

    What a very sad television debut.  I will redeem myself one of these days!

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