It is Christmas Day. I don’t feel it at all but I haven’t any of the other years I’ve been down here either. It just isn’t the same without snow and family.
Took Baxter for his morning walk. He chased some squirrels up a tree then exhausted himself trying to climb up after them. It was laughable. He’d go from tree to tree trying to climb up to get at not only the squirrels but some birds he also found sitting up there. When I thought it couldn’t get any funnier, he noticed a fast moving cloud and tried to chase it. He barked and growled at it but to no avail – it still floated away.
I saw, for the first time ever, the family who lives in one of the three bedroom units across from me. They never come out. Today they were sitting on the patio and wanted to pet Baxter so we went over. They are Jamacian and seem very nice. Whatever they were cooking for their Christmas dinner sure smelled good. I didn’t stand there and talk to them because it is Christmas and that is family time.
I’m suppose to work today at 7pm. It was originally 3-11pm but they told me last night they didn’t need me first half. Of course, I’m suppose to call in about 2pm to confirm no one called out sick – I think it would take a lot of balls and disregard for your coworkers to call in sick on Christmas.
We had a lot of domestic disturbances yesterday. We also had one bank robbery and one armed robbery of a person out walking. Those really tied up a lot of officers. We had several suicides attempts but none were successful. There was a couple who lost control of their motorcycle going over 80mph on the interstate – neither was wearing a helmet…neither will live. We had one guy who called about nine times to cuss at the call takers. We finally sent a batch of deputies over to chat with him – he didn’t bother us the rest of the night.
My worst call last night was a man who said his wife suddenly “went nuts” and he didn’t know what to do. This woman was in the background screaming and repeating herself over and over. First it was “Call 911” then “call 119”, then “my hair”, “open the door”, “the clouds” and so forth. I think she sounded strung out on some hallucinate but the man, of course, swore she hadn’t taken anything. This woman was screaming and repeating herself so loudly that the paramedics got there and didn’t want to go in. I sent law too just because it sounded like the paramedics would have their hands full and I didn’t see how anyone could go that nuts “suddenly” like her husband said. I played the tape back for the other call takers to hear – they couldn’t believe I managed to stay on the phone for eight minutes with her screaming like she was. I really can’t do it justice telling it like this, you’d have to hear the tape. Even the deputies that responded wrote me an instant message telling me that my comment “patient is going nuts” on the screen did not adequately describe her mental status…guess “insane” would have been a better word.
What a night!
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