Coincidences…

Ok, what are the chances of this???

A nursing home calls in saying they have an 85 year old dead guy that they need us to come pronounce. The death was expected. I set it up and didn’t verify the address correctly. The officer went to the address I gave him – did a report on a dead 85 year old at the nursing home there and we thought that was that.

Not so. The same nursing home called in wondering why we hadn’t arrived yet. It took literally hours to figure out that the nursing home we went to – which varied in name by only one word from the other nursing home – was the wrong one and the fact that they also had a dead 85 year old male was totally coincidence. What are the odds??

I’m afraid several other people had a hand in the long, drawn out problem – each one adding something else wrong to the call instead of fixing it. Really was quite amazing. We all got talked to by the supervisors…who also had a hand in the whole scheme…and it ended up being something we all just shook our heads at in wonder. Of course, the Lieutenant on duty wasn’t so easily pacified. I offered to apologize to him but everyone figured that would make it only worse – to just let him cool off a bit.

We always here “there are no coincidences” but, apparently, there are.

Seriously strange. We also had the second suicide by gunshot in a public place in two days. Both males, both shot themselves in the head – one in front of a busy grocery store yesterday and the other in front of the sheriff’s dept just blocks from my work area.

It makes me ask, once again, what is going on in the world????

4th of July Picnic

I’m counting down – 120 minutes till I have to be getting ready for work – 150 minutes till I have to be there. 630 minutes till I can go back to bed. Ugh.

Have to run to the store to buy something to help feed the people at work tonight. Our theme is – get this – 4th of July picnic. Whoa, how original. Took no imagination to come up with that one. Personally, I said lets do a food channel favorites theme – whatever dish looked most appealing to each person this week that is what they should make to share. Why watch hours upon hours upon hours of the food channel for nothing?

Fourth of July picnic really doesn’t give anyone a chance to showcase their talents. We have some excellent cooks on staff. Kinda disappointing that they’ll be using their culinary gifts to boil hotdogs and flip hamburgers.

But oh well. My assignment is deviled eggs. I have the eggs boiling now. Don’t want to mess with them but went to Publix and they don’t have any pre-made…must be Sweetbay that we got those at last time. I wonder who would notice if I forgot to bring them?

Rain – Gotta Love It!

After all my complaining I’m happy to say we’ve finally had rain! We had minor showers the past couple of days which is fantastic – amazing how a little rain can turn so many things green again.

Ok, my disappointment was why did it have to rain while I was cooped up at work? Didn’t seem fair but I know, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth right? I would have loved to go out to do my “raining” dance which is, obviously, different then the rain dance which I simply am not good at.

You’d think we would have cooled off after the rain but no – it is in the 90’s. It’s so hot here that the fish are boiling in the Gulf – you can go down to the beach to pick up fish already boiled. It is so hot out, even the buildings are sweating. It is so hot the shade trees are putting up umbrellas. It is so hot that if you spit it will vaporize before hitting the ground. It is so hot the birds are dropping from dehydration. It is so hot the mermaids are sun burnt. It is so hot, the mosquitoes are too tired to bite.

Did I mention that it is very hot here?