Don’t remake Play Misty for Me
Remember the movie with Clint Eastwood? Clints a DJ who deals with an obsesssed fan. This was the original Fatal Attraction. Bad idea. I’ve dealt with a few obsessed people over the years. All when I was younger - and all - really lonely women who listened to radio late at night. Going to mornings pretty much stopped the calls & visits dead in their tracks. If you imagine that evening & all night jocks get calls from strange women, you’re right. Some just show up at the station - and while walking to your car - they spring on you. It always starts the same way. You get a call. You’re nice. They call back the next day. You’re nice again. They call three days in a row. Then twice a show, then three times, then four - then you have to decide if you want to continue to be nice. I’ve been really stalked only two times that I can remember. On both occasions I was nice even after the calls escalated to multiple times a night. Then I made the nighttime DJ mistake - all nighttime DJ’s make. I agreed to meet these women. Let’s just say I knew within 3 seconds of meeting - it "wasn’t gonna work out." I’ve never had my life threatened. I’ve been threatened with, "I’ll never listen to you ever ever again for as long as I live!" I’ll stay on the morning show thank you - where the women who call are smart, career minded and mostly married.
