AM I the only one who has the dream that you’re at work and you realise at lunchtime you forgot to put your pants on? Surely, that’s not just me.

As a radio announcer for the last 30 or so years, I have a recurring workplace dream: I’m on air, doing a music shift and I’ve put a song on air and leave the studio to go to the toilet or make a coffee. There are long corridors and the dream is always the same: running down endless corridors in a blind panic listening to the song fade out but, try as I might, I can’t find the studio.

I’ve also had the dream that I’m finishing an interview and I go to play a commercial, but nothing works. The on-air computer doesn’t work, the CD players don’t work, nothing is functioning and I’m sitting there stuck for words.

As a race caller, I’ve also had the dream that I’m at the races and one of the races starts while I’m not in the broadcast box. I race up the stairs and when I get there I’m too breathless to call the race.

At the Canberra Show this year, I actually lived that dream.

I was there to call the harness races. There were four races, the first at 6pm and the second at 7.15pm. In previous years, the Show trots have never run on time. I was there with my family and we had some dinner between the first and second races.

At around 7.13pm I got up and announced that I better go see if the horses were on the track for the second race. As I got out to the main arena I saw that the horses were indeed on the track… the first thing I saw was the green light flashing and the mobile barrier pulling away.

There I was living the dream! I tore up the stairs of the grandstand with all eyes on me as the race progressed, got to the microphone in time to call the last lap while trying to catch my breath.

I guess it was better than living the no-pants dream!