I'm Cursed!
Actually I should say I AM a Curse.
On three separate occasions, during three separate shows, with three separate female anchors, I've had the same thing happen. They all choked, literally.
The first time was with the morning anchor doing the Noon show. Halfway through the first story she paused, then cleared her throat, then started coughing uncontrollably. Thankfully she managed to toss to weather and I gave her my water bottle. But it was painful to watch her face get red and her eyes water as she attempted to speak around the hacking.
About a month later I was working on the 5pm with a different anchor and the same thing happened. Just as we go to video in her first story she stops speaking and starts choking. Again she managed to toss to weather, and I lost another water bottle.
Yesterday, you guessed it, same thing- different person. It's the 5:30pm show and although we keep all the other people on set, we change up the female anchor for a half hour. So this girl sits down at the desk and thirty seconds later her voice goes tight and I think "oh great, not another one." But this time it was different. The poor girl almost passes out at the desk. She turned deathly pale and sweaty, and obviously was having problems speaking, but no coughing this time (thank God, because I didn't have a water bottle in the studio yesterday.)
After a few painful stories (for her and us) the producer got in her ear to throw to weather and disaster was adverted. But it was a "Clencher" moment for all of us.
If you can't identify with "clenching," then you've never worked in News and had an on-air moment that stops everyone in their tracks and has rear ends tightening. During a "Clencher" everyone is on an unspoken standby to either; take black, or go to commercial. It's the few seconds just before the show may or may not, go to hell.
Of course all these vocal mishaps happened when the anchors just happened to be doing a solo show (when usually the co-anchor could have just taken over.) And they are all easily explained.
The culprit with the morning anchor was some peanut M&M's she ate just before the show. A piece of shell still in her teeth or something flew back into her throat when she took a big breath. The 5pm anchor simply swallowed wrong (c'mon you've done it too.) The poor girl yesterday only weighs 90lbs soaking wet and they had just painted the set and changed the desktop. I'm sure all the fumes and kicked up dirt (newsrooms are extremely dirty,) went straight to her, I know I got a headache from it.
Still, I feel like I'm cursed. All three women said they've never had that happen to them before. The only common factor in all three cases... me. So either I need to shower more, or I'm cursed.
On three separate occasions, during three separate shows, with three separate female anchors, I've had the same thing happen. They all choked, literally.
The first time was with the morning anchor doing the Noon show. Halfway through the first story she paused, then cleared her throat, then started coughing uncontrollably. Thankfully she managed to toss to weather and I gave her my water bottle. But it was painful to watch her face get red and her eyes water as she attempted to speak around the hacking.
About a month later I was working on the 5pm with a different anchor and the same thing happened. Just as we go to video in her first story she stops speaking and starts choking. Again she managed to toss to weather, and I lost another water bottle.
Yesterday, you guessed it, same thing- different person. It's the 5:30pm show and although we keep all the other people on set, we change up the female anchor for a half hour. So this girl sits down at the desk and thirty seconds later her voice goes tight and I think "oh great, not another one." But this time it was different. The poor girl almost passes out at the desk. She turned deathly pale and sweaty, and obviously was having problems speaking, but no coughing this time (thank God, because I didn't have a water bottle in the studio yesterday.)
After a few painful stories (for her and us) the producer got in her ear to throw to weather and disaster was adverted. But it was a "Clencher" moment for all of us.
If you can't identify with "clenching," then you've never worked in News and had an on-air moment that stops everyone in their tracks and has rear ends tightening. During a "Clencher" everyone is on an unspoken standby to either; take black, or go to commercial. It's the few seconds just before the show may or may not, go to hell.
Of course all these vocal mishaps happened when the anchors just happened to be doing a solo show (when usually the co-anchor could have just taken over.) And they are all easily explained.
The culprit with the morning anchor was some peanut M&M's she ate just before the show. A piece of shell still in her teeth or something flew back into her throat when she took a big breath. The 5pm anchor simply swallowed wrong (c'mon you've done it too.) The poor girl yesterday only weighs 90lbs soaking wet and they had just painted the set and changed the desktop. I'm sure all the fumes and kicked up dirt (newsrooms are extremely dirty,) went straight to her, I know I got a headache from it.
Still, I feel like I'm cursed. All three women said they've never had that happen to them before. The only common factor in all three cases... me. So either I need to shower more, or I'm cursed.
posted by SassyJill at 5:38 PM
4 Comments:
Oh, come on, don't be silly. You are not a curse. This happens to everyone from time to time -- it just happened to happen to them while they were on the air. No biggie.
Still, you have always brought me bad luck...
Yep, happens to me, usually at a public dinner, and you were nowhere around...
S.S.- No, you brought your own bad luck, and clumsiness upon yourself. I was just always annoying.
B- Well that's a relief. Hope the moment wasn't too akward.
LOL
No you ain't cursed. In your biz, the show stopping cough would just be a bigger deal, wouldn't it?
Yeah, I've had clench moments, usually when one of my children gets hurt in some fashion. Never like it when my kids take a tumble or go bonk on something. ;-)
Oh, and I had whooping cough a few years back, and my throat has never been the same since. I wake up coughing from the least irritation in the middle of the night. So no, you ain't cursed.
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