Full Moons and Silver Blood

[Michelle]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., macloudt at y... wrote:
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> > 
> Is this true, then, Michelle?  I've heard about the emergency 
> services being busier during a full moon, but never knew if this 
was 
> fact.  Do the wierdos *really* come out at this time?
> 
Well, I didn't think it held true either ... until I started working 
in this field and discovered that people really are wierder on full 
moons.  When I was a dispatcher, we'd get really wierd phone calls, 
you know the kind of calls you see on ER, the strange ones ... 
sometimes you just have no idea how that screwdriver got stuck in 
your head.  And out here in the field, wierds thigns just tend to 
happen.  

Of course, this Hallowe'en I expect to not sleep at all as I'm sure 
sure we will be running about a million anthrax scares and that'll 
just be a blast.

Michelle :) <--who is ready to go to work with her glow-in-the-dark 
lipstick and nail polish :)

p.s.  Here's a funny something to take your mind off of the 
previously mentioned anthrax.  We have a lieutenant in our department 
that is older and not especially bright.  He asked one of our HazMat 
guys what the deal was with all this 'amtrax' stuff.  The HazMat 
tech, being the smartass that he is (can I say smartass?) tells him 
that there are 2 different kinds of 'amtrax'.  You have the north-
south amtrax and the east-west amtrax.  Now the north-south amtrax is 
ok, that's curable.  It's the east-west amtrax you have to worry 
about, but they only have that up north.  They don't have east-west 
amtrax in Florida.  So now, it is a running joke throughout the 
department ... watch out for those east-west amtraxes ... that's bad 
stuff :)

ok, so it is funny to us :)  Yes, you have to be a sick and twisted 
individual to be in my profession ... that's why I fit in so well :)