I was working for a small country station in Virginia when I forgot to close the mike once when I was cutting from announcing the station ID to the CBS news feed from satellite. The lead story was the revolution in Russia (1991) and that Gorby was OK. That was the end of my shift on a Friday & I had immediate plans that included women and beer and I was in a very good mood. I rolled the chair back & was grabbing carts, squaring things away, etc & yelled "Go get 'em Gorby!" and chanting "Mik-hi-el, Mik-hi-el" and other silliness when I got a "look" through the plexiglass from the Program Director. I was shouting all over the news feed. Luckily nothing obscene. Another time I was doing the morning show for Jazz Radio Berlin and I knocked over the ENTIRE stack of CD's I had prepared for the day's show just as I opened the mike for the intro of my show. Very Loud. The Sensenheimer mike we had in the studio was so sensitive it could read the minds of people miles away. All of my CD's were on the floor. the VU meter was pegged. The playlist was on my desk. I had NO coffee. I utterly blanked on the artist/title of the song I had opened with. I forgot temporarily how to speak both English and German and just made little guttural strangled sounds before completely breaking up laughing. The mike was still open. Must have been 3 to 5 seconds- felt like 2 days. Luckily the owner of the station wasn't awake yet- she would have killed me.