Keith's Ramblings

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Every teenager has at some time stood stood before their bedroom mirror singing into their hair brush. Mike was no exception. However he was determined to take it to the next level and one day become a world-renowned performer!

As a young man, he looked the part, but oh dear, the sounds he produced upset every dog in the district! As the years passed by his dream became more and more distant.

One day, Mike was watching a comedian on television and  something suddenly occured to him. You don’t need to be a singer to use a microphone!

He started visiting local pubs on open mike nights. Would-be comics climbed onto the podium, grabbed the microphone, told a couple of poor jokes and got booed off again. Our Mike was no exception, but there was no way he was going to give up. Something inside told him over and over again that one day people would want to listen to him. It would just be a matter of time.

Fast forward three years. Mike has achieved his ambition; he is now the king of the microphone. Every day hundreds of folk eagerly await his voice and today is no exception. Unseen he checks the time on his watch, clears his throat, takes a sip of water then flicks the microphone’s switch to on and it crackles into life. The assembled hoard falls silent in fervent anticipation.

‘Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,’ shouts Mike, ‘the train now approaching platform three is the six forty-five service to London Waterloo.’

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Image Credit; Tobias Reich @ Unsplash

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