I spent the day at Bro Bro's pharmacy, training to be his assistant. I'll be helping out in that role while his real assistant is on vacation. When I answered the phone today, a man at the other end said, "What? Sylph? You're new. God, you have a radio voice."
Later, when his wife came in to pick up his prescription, she said, "Are you the one with the radio voice my husband spoke to?"
I couldn't help smile. He is not the first to tell me about my voice. Every year, someone tells me I should be on the radio. Not only that, every once in a while, a cashier or a cab driver would ask me, "Do you work on TV?"
Now, you'd think I am a good-looking, well-groomed woman who conducts herself with authority. And you'd be wrong.
When I am walking, most of the time, I have to remind myself to not waddle so obviously. Pick up, pick up your feet, tuck in your tummy and hold your head up. When I talk, I hear the thinning, shaking voice that comes with age. I remind myself to breath and think before talking.
Honestly, I don't really know what people mean when they compliment my voice or my countenance. Still, it thrills me a bit to think they see something in me I've missed.
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I use to conduct interviews over the phone in the evenings, and one night a breathless woman said to me, 'your voice is so soothing, it washes over me like a warm bath'
I wish I could hear myself sometimes.
Have you seen pictures of radio personalities. I don't know what those radio marketing people were thinking connecting worn out, baggy eyed faces to melodious radio voices ruining the fantasy for hundreds of thousands of listeners.
Hey anon - there's our home business: We get a 1-900 number, $1.99 a minute, and start Phone a Friend. You and me on the receiving end, talking to the distraught and lonely in a soothing voice. But no general phone sex stuff, okay? That's reserved for my special customers.
Slim - Maybe I missed my calling. Apparently, I'd be one of those radio voices with a face that doesn't disappoint.
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