The Vent

The AJC has a section called "The Vent" where people call up anonymously and leave a voicemail to vent their frustration with the world, or Atlanta, or usually just the Falcons. And then Vent Guy publishes the best vents each day.

I remember calling the number all the time as a kid and then checking the paper the next day to see if my vent got published. Even though vents are uncredited, I would still feel a bit of glory seeing something I yammered about on a voicemail in print. I think the only ones of mine that ever got published were the ones I made up about bad traffic. I realize that's probably because nobody really wants to read what a 16 year old has to gripe about anyway.

In even more glorious fashion, I was actually mentioned in a recent vent based on some recent press. It read:

Alan Corey (How many pennies do you have to pinch to become a millionaire) makes Clark Howard look like a spendthrift.

Wow, I'm not sure why that person had to get that off their chest, but inside, I hope it was some high school kid trying to get his first vent published.

And to Atlanta's iconic financial money-saver Clark Howard, I invite you to celebrate this great occassion with me. Drinks on you.