[jkubiak]

I was out a local bar last evening and was talking with a nice lady. She asked me what I did for a living and I told her that I was in the used automobile business. She asked me what my hobbies were. I told her that I enjoyed long walks, talking, watching movies at home, and COLLECTING RADIO JINGLES. She looked at me like I had been smoking crack. So when you tell someone that you collect radio jingles, how do they react. The reaction I have recieved from people, is that I am absolutely insane.

[Admin]

When you are in a bar hitting on a girl, it’s not a good idea to say you collect jingles!

“I’m into radio” is a safe one.

[kcmike]

Neal’s right Jeremiah, best to stay in the closet!

“Normal” people just don’t get it.

Recently, my boss was riding with me to a meeting when he pushed PLAY on my car CD player. I got the same odd look and reaction – like he just discovered I was an axe murderer!

I felt like I needed to explain that I wasn’t molested by a Top 40 DJ as a child, I was born this way. 🙄

[OnyxPaulMember]

Neal is absolutely right. The only problem is when you get her home.
“Ooh! That’s a big CD collection, can I have a look?”
“Dear God NO!!!!!!!!”
Don’t let her near the tapes or CD’s… EVER!!! What to you is a marvelous arrangement of your favourite jingles, (which you really would like her to listen to), to her is a plastic case full of anthrax! From being the world’s greatest catch (which all of us jingle collectors know in our hearts we are) you will become slightly less popular than Nelson Mandela at a Klu Klux Klan meeting!

[Admin]

Saying that though, I was seeing a girl back in 2002 that actually ASKED me for some jingles!

She did some work experience at BRMB, loved the jingles and was totally into radio. Now she works full time in the industry!

Then there was the girl I was dating in the US. She was (and still is) a big radio geek. A guy couldn’t wish for more!

Another girl I was with for 5 years didn’t quite understand the fascination with my ever growing aircheck collection, but she put up with it. To her it was peace of mind that the hobby didn’t involve me having to hang out at sleazy strip joints.

Well thats what she thought….

[DavidHemsley]

jkubiak wrote: I was out a local bar last evening and was talking with a nice lady. She asked me what I did for a living and I told her that I was in the used automobile business. She asked me what my hobbies were. I told her that I enjoyed long walks, talking, watching movies at home, and COLLECTING RADIO JINGLES. She looked at me like I had been smoking crack. So when you tell someone that you collect radio jingles, how do they react. The reaction I have recieved from people, is that I am absolutely insane.

Look on the bright side – at least she knew what a radio jingle was – not many do.

[OnyxPaulMember]

Girlfriends who like jingles! Neal, you’ve been out with some right weirdo’s!

[topcat]

jkubiak wrote: So when you tell someone that you collect radio jingles, how do they react. The reaction I have recieved from people, is that I am absolutely insane.

Those that have known me for years already know I’m insane. As for the new folks…. the heck with them. I make no apologies after having collected this stuff since age 7. The fact that my spare office here at work has racks of CDs on the walls… ALL jingles, in fact… is just the way it is.

Of course, my secretary thinks I’m a bit nuts. I got in a new CD of Pepper Sound Studio jingles this morning that I was playing for someone down the phone line, and she just came in with a phone message or two staring blankly. She has also had to add discs to the master CD databases… sorting out scores of new arrivals of discs by call letters and enter them too. Further, she’s opened the mail and seen all of the coorespondance pertaining to the habit (along with the file cabinets full of files pertaining to jingles). She’s used to my insanity… and likes a steady paycheck. (grin)

I’ll be married eight years at the end of this month. I walked into the bedroom the other day to hear my wife humming/La-La’ing “The Happy Difference” theme to the 11 month old twins. I wasn’t aware of how much she’d picked up over the last eight years.

Bottom line: I’m no crazier than the person who collects CocaCola memoribilia — nor the one who collects belly button lint. To each their own!

-TC

[jkubiak]

So jingle collectors should stay in the closet. Probally a good idea. I just thought it was funny, the look on this girls face was that of seeing someone get out of a space ship. My ex-wife thought I was absolutely out of my mind when she went into my computer and found the file folder with 16GB of jingles hidden. She treated me as if I collected illegal pornography. This is a funny hobby.

Jeremiah

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