directions?

Today I felt like an intern. An actual intern, can you believe it! I did actual internyish things instead of just standing around watching the three hosts do their thang. I turned the lights on in the morning, and made Larry a cup of coffee! Well not really, I mean the Keurig kind of had it under control; I was more a deliverer of coffee per say. But that’s not it. Later in the day a woman came in to talk on the AM station down the hall (WBSM AM-1420 shares the studio building with FUN 107) and I welcomed her and escorted her to the am station.

            Later I was given a mission. In the middle of the show, Michael Rock said he needed a picture of Kenny’s sign he put up after the farm stand robbery, it’s just right up the street, you can’t miss it. I said no problem. Now…let this be a lesson on the importance of explicit instruction.  Last summer, when I had my troop of 18 Giftstogive summer interns, I learned the hard way that I needed to explain every single aspect of the task in order for it to get done. I didn’t understand how my interns were incapable of doing simple tasks until I was on the other end and became the one who received a task. I left the station, got into my car and realized I had no idea where I was supposed to go. Up the street? What street? So I just started driving. I went up route 6, drove a while and didn’t see anything resembling a farm stand nor did I see any sign that stood out so I turned around. Went down the other way on route 6 and passed the station in the other direction. I knew nothing was this way because I had gone this route on my way to the station earlier in the morning. I looped around back to the station and went around to Alden road thinking that may have been the street Michael was talking about. Well it wasn’t. I then Googled ‘Farm stand Fairhaven’ and found it! Thank god I literally took almost a half hour to drive a mile up route 6. No exaggeration, the red line is the route i took, blue is what i should have taken. 

I took the picture of the reward sign, and went back to the station. I angled all of the pictures so my parked car is visible in all of them ;) so if the story goes on the Fun 107 website, There she’ll be!