I am a skateboard

I guess if you live long enough you'll see everything at some point. Today I walk into the studio to do a traffic report and Steve Greenburg the Gadget guru lifts up this skateboard and on the bottom of it is a picture of me and Andrea. So there you have I am now officially a skateboard. I ask Steve, "Obviously no one in the world would want that after you leave this station, so what do you plan to do with it when you are done with it?" He says it's mine if I want it. I figure what a great gift for my teenage son. You can step on dad, you can slam dad into the curb, it's the ultimate gift for a teen. Think of all that teenage angst lifted with one simple skateboard.

I love the 9 am broadcast because of the diversity of the guests. Today I get the chance to interview Alec Klein. He has just written a book about a public high school in New York for prodigies. But even in a school of high achievers there has to be a kid or two that is troubled. It's just the nature of the game. In this case it's a teen named Jane. She just so happens to be strung out on heroin. She eventually stops talking to Alec and helping him with his book because he refuses to give her one hundred dollars. He knows the money will go to her pusher. Overall his book is about the kids who can, and do succeed, he describes them as the leaders of tomorrow. He ought to know he graduated from the same high school. Even so you can tell he still haunted by the young girl who had so much and decided to throw it all away.

Up next I interview the Mommy Docs. They are on to talk about fevers in kids. We talk for about four minutes, and then I ask the question that every parent wonders about.
How do you take the temperature? I take my pen and wave it around and then place it under my armpit and I say, "There are a lot of ways to take a temp, this is the one that everyone knows about, but what's the best way?" I'm afraid I already know the answer, and I'm right. "If it's a baby, rectally!" They are all smiles, but they can tell by my expression that I need reassurance. "Don't worry the kid won't remember it when they get older." I think even if they do, perhaps parents could go out and buy one of these special skateboards with there picture plastered on it, so they can take it out on the board instead of the parent.