"Hey everybody, welcome back to Rockstand on CKER 101.9F.M. You just finished hearing the pants song by Five Iron Frenzy, and I think that's the most interesting and funny song I've ever heard," said my friend Cory. Her and me and our youth group were invited to help host the show Rockstand on the radio, and so far we were having a blast, "since we're nearing 1:00 AM and that's request hour phone in your request at 555-5555, even if you don't have one, phone in and jam up the phone lines and give Karin something to do." We wanted to make ourselves useful. The next song came on, and then the phone rang. You see Rockstand isn't a very popular radio program being on at 12:00AM to 2:00AM in the morning, but that's the only spot you get for hosting a Christian rock program on an ethnic radio station. Not too many people flip their dials to it because usually it's not in English.
Anyways, I picked up the phone and said, "hello Rockstand?"
"Hi, can I request a song," asked a guy.
"Sure if we have it."
"Umm, can I request Raining in my Mind and dedicate it to all the girls in Edmonton," he asked.
"I'd like to," I replied, "but two things. One, I don't have my Moffatts cd with me, and two, the Moffatts don't really sing Christian music. It's a great song and all. Sorry about that."
"No, that's okay, I'm surprised you knew it was a Moffatt song, because I didn't tell you who it's by, and judging by the harder music you play....."
"Yeah, I see your drift. I love all types of music pretty much....So you're a Moffatt fan?"
"I'm a fan. I like most types of music too, and I was flipping through the radio stations to find some good tunes, but I never recognized any of the songs on this station, and now I know why, because it's Christian music."
"I think it's dumb that society has to separate Christian and non-Christian music. Music is music and I don't think it should be divided, or labelled."
"I think so too. Sorry to change the topic, but are you going to the Moffatt concert next Saturday? Maybe we could meet before."
"Yep, I'm going. Um, sure I'll meet you. How about by the doors?"
"That might not me so good. How about by the Agricom, because there I would be able to find you a lot easier from the other girls, crowding the doors at the Skyreach Centre."
"That sounds cool. How about I meet you at 6:30 outside the entrance closest to the parkinglot of the Agricom?"
"Sounds good to me."
"Great do you have any other songs you might like to hear?"
"Um, I don't know. How about you pick one for me."
"Sure, I'll think about it, but what's your name?" I asked.
"It's Mike, and yours is Karin right? So I know who to ask for to find you."
"Yep, oh, I'll be bringing my friend Sandi with me too."
"C-ya then."
"Yep, nice talking to ya."
"You too."
"Bye."
"Bye."
I received other calls that night, but they weren't as interesting as the one with Mike. I picked the song for Mike. It was called Rock and Roll Girl by MXPX, and I dedicated it on the air to all the girls from him.
After I played the song, I got a call back from him, since we were still trying to find people to jam up the phone lines.
"Hello Rockstand."
"I'm Mike from Canmore?" said the guy in his best Mike from Canmore voice, (the Mike guy off Royal Canadian Air Farce.)
"Hey Mike, is this the same Mike as before?"
"Yep."
"Cool, Mike is my favourite character off the show."
"He's hilarious, anyways I called to tell you that I really liked the song you picked for me."
"Thanks, MXPX is a pretty good band."
"So we're still on, on Saturday? Oh, I also heard they were going to be at HMV at West Ed or something like that on Wednesday at 1:00PM."
"Nifty, I was going to go there for 2:00pm to go skating with my friend Katie. I just got my skates fixed so I want to try em out."
"I'm working on Wednesday, otherwise I would have gone."
"I have to go now, there's another caller trying to get through."
"C-you on Saturday!"
"Yep, bye."
"Bye."
~*~*~
Wednesday came, and Katie and I out of curiosity decided to check if Mike was lying or not that the Moffatts would be there. We got to HMV and there were no signs posted as to the Moffatts were actually going to be there.
"Looks like your friend lied to you Karin," said Katie, she didn't care to much for the Moffatts.
"Oh well, I don't care. I really didn't expect to see them here. But since we're here, we might as well look around. We've got some time."
"Yeah, I guess," she answered.
We stayed for about 7 minutes and then slowly made our way to the Ice Palace, peeking our heads into the cool shops as we went. We got to the Palace and I was excited because it had always been a dream of mine to skate there, even though most people say the ice sucks.
We got to the rink about 15 minutes before two, so we took our time putting our skates on. Right before we went on I told Katie to try not to fall because the zamboni just finished resurfacing the rink and it takes a while before the water freezes. Anyways, I had my newly rebuilt skates on and I could hardly bend in them, so what did I go and do when I was rounding the corner, take a spill, my pants were soaked.
Katie came up to me, "um, Karin don't look now but a bunch of hot guys just entered the place where we tie our skates and saw you fall, and are laughing."
"Ooops!" I laughed, "I'll live. How about I teach you some figure skating tricks."
"Okay, how about we do a bit of skating before you teach me some tricks. The way you're going I think I'll have to teach you how to skate."
I finally got the hang of my skates again, and showed Katie some jumps but her attention span was pretty short.
"Katie will you quit looking at those guys!" I complained.
"But they can skate so good, and they're hot! Look for yourself!"
I listened to her, and looked for a second, then smiled for I knew something she didn't. "Um, Katie, you think they're hot right?"
"Um, yeah!" she stated.
"Well, you just called the Moffatts hot, you know the band where you think they all look like dogs that we thought were going to be at HMV."
"Oh man, they've changed."
"Okay, how about we leave them alone. I'm sure they don't want girls around them 24/7."
"Yes mother!"
"Sorry. That didn't sound nice did it. How about we have a longest lounge race."
So we decided to have fun, which made us hyper. So I ended up trying to do pairs skating with Katie, in which we had no clue in what we were doing, and when we happened to glace at them, they were trying not to laugh at us. After about 15 minutes the guys approached us. We were the only people on the ice. "Hey, we were wondering if you want to play tag with us or something,"asked Dave.
Katie and I looked at each other and smiled, then said, "sure!"
"By the way, I'm Dave, and these are my brothers Bob, Clint and Scott."
"Cool, I'm Katie."
"And I'm Karin," Clint smiled, "you're the Moffatts right?"
"Yep," Clint answered.
"Cool, I'm going to your concert on Saturday. I really like your music."
"Thanks," said Scott, "how about we start our game....one two three, not it."
We all answered not it, except for Bob, who was thinking about something."
"Bob's it," shouted Clint.
So first Bob was it, then Scott was it, then Clint, then me, then Katie, then Dave, then Clint, and you get the point.
After that I showed them some ice dance moves, and tried to teach them the Dutch Waltz. It was fun. Soon it was time to get off and the guys insisted on taking us out for an ice cream. On the way we got to talking.
"So Katie, do you like our music?' asked Dave.
"Um, to tell you the truth, I'm not really a fan, but I'm thinking of reconsidering that. I'll have to borrow Karin's cd."
"So do you like the harder type of music?" asked Scott.
"No, Katie's a teeny bopper." I teased.
"You little psycho hose beast." The guys all laughed.
"I'm the one who likes the harder type of music," I said.
"Cool," commented Scott.
"Well at least you weren't like, omigod, omigod, it's Bob Moffatt," joked Bob.
"What's the point, you guys sing and play instruments, I mean I could do that too if I wanted to. It's not a big deal." I answered seriously.
"So do you guys play any instruments?" asked Clint.
"Yep, me and Karin are 3rd clarinetists in the school band," said Katie sarcastically.
"Now Katie cut the sarcasm, if we weren't 3rd clarinets, the whole band would be lost without us. We need the base part don't we," I joined in on the sarcasm.
We passed a music store, "oh sweet, there's the guitar I want," I said walking into the store. I looked at the price, "forget it, way too expensive," and I walked out.
"So you play guitar too?" asked Scott.
"Yeah, I play a bunch of instruments."
"Sweet, which ones?" asked Clint.
"Guitar, piano, violin, clarinet, I know a few drum beats, because my brother plays drums, and I took a saxophone home this summer to learn."
We were entering the food court when all of the sudden a girl screamed, "omigod, it's the Moffatts."
