This morning I was all prepared to write a column about my sense of organization, or lack thereof depending upon your point of view, when something stopped me.
I wrote that article this January!
The Cox Curse strikes again! (Let me back up, and explain this properly.)
In my family, we come from a long line of storytellers. Obviously I like to tell them, it’s kinda my job. My dad is in radio, too, so that is a no brainer where it cam from for me.
My grandfather JT (or Grandaddy as I knew him) would spin tales of “Jack Jackson” and his adventures that oddly mirrored my activities that day. (It was revealed to me that this was a time honored tradition, as old Jack had been copying my father’s daily activities when he was a child.)
The problem with being story tellers is always having fresh material.
So what you do is keep several “new” tales in reserve for people you constantly are around and “old favorites for new people in your life.
Where the Cox Curse comes in is that we are notorious for telling the same stories to the same people, and doing so repeatedly.
I swear it’s not old age setting in early, nor is it what my father lovingly refers to as “Some-Timers.” You know, sometimes my mind works and sometimes it doesn’t. (Yeah, I know, it has to work some of the time for that to apply. Believe me, that’s not a new one!)
I just like telling stories, and sometimes forget which company I am in, or more likely, I think a story is so great and that I tell it so well I have decided to grace you with it again.
So, that in mind, let’s talk about my desk and just how cluttered it can really become…
Ben Cox is the host of “Ben Cox in the Morning” weekday mornings from 6 to 9 on KQBZ, 96.9 FM in Brownwood Texas. He is the in-stadium voice of the Howard Payne Yellow Jackets football team and is also a mobile DJ for weddings, parties and the like. He can be contacted via this website.
The thoughts and comments reflected in this column are those of the writer alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of Wendlee Broadcasting, or its affiliates.
