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Old 01-11-2010, 11:06 AM   #91
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Do it soon. I want to hear about it too.
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:44 PM   #92
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http://www.neenaw.co.uk/

This is the very popular blog of a dispatcher in the UK. There are more.
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Old 01-11-2010, 01:57 PM   #93
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My Mum worked in ambulance control for about 10 years. In this country you dial 999 and are asked, "Which service, please?" If you asked for an ambulance in the mid eighties-nineties you'd have got through to my Mum (in Bucks, when she was on duty!)

You don't want her stories.
She came home full of stress, anger, bile, horror and helplessness. And irritability. And that was when she wasn't on nights. She mentioned being on nights over Christmas (three years running - the shifts fell as they did, no argument) to someone the other day. She said what hell it was having to get up and make Christmas dinner after less than six hours sleep. I chipped in that we were all terrified of her when she was on nights (perhaps a little TMI) and her response was, "If you hadn't all been so much trouble, perhaps things would have been easier for me!" So no regrets there then Mum.
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Old 01-11-2010, 05:42 PM   #94
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I have to hand it to Juju.... she really handles it well. I listen to her on the scanner and she's been there so long she's a natural. I can tell if it's been a 'crazy' night, but she rarely brings it home with her. A dead giveaway of a 'crazy' night is a glass of Bulleit or Knob Creek at 0830 hrs. The nights she works, she gets home just a few minutes before I am leaving to go to my job.
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Old 01-11-2010, 10:00 PM   #95
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Aw, she just needs a stiff one... and her's is leaving for work.
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Old 01-12-2010, 06:48 AM   #96
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Aw, she just needs a stiff one... and her's is leaving for work.
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Old 01-12-2010, 08:29 AM   #97
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A dead giveaway of a 'crazy' night is a glass of Bulleit or Knob Creek at 0830 hrs. .
Thanks for understanding Capn! I handle my job much better since I have an understanding husband who appreciates the stressful nights and doesn't scorn or fuss at me for coming home 'pissy' sometimes. It's true, I try not to take it out on him and most days I do pretty good, but sometimes he catches the blunt of my tiredness. I guess that's another good reason we are on separate rotations as far as our work schedule goes.

I do miss him when we are apart, but our separate schedules gives us both time to ourselves and we still find some very important quality time together.
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Old 02-25-2010, 11:00 AM   #98
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I'm way past the point of lumping all Americans together as a whole. But sometimes an overall flavour comes through. And it's very nice to know the Merkins I know have nothing to do with it.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php...309#post637309

Clod - who else? - reminds me that America is a big place with room for lots of opinions. And that although some are abhorrent to me, my countrymen are not immune to the same.
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Old 02-25-2010, 11:03 AM   #99
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I'm way past the point of lumping all Americans together as a whole. ...
I usually lump all Americans as a-HOLE.
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Old 02-25-2010, 11:07 AM   #100
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As I was typing it I remembered a Red Dwarf line, from Backwards

[talking about living life backwards]:
Rimmer: ... until eventually we all become one glorious whole
Lister: Rimmer, you're already are one glorious hole!

Made me smile.

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Old 03-30-2010, 12:21 PM   #101
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The Cellar gave me somewhere to talk about my sexual exploits.
I had nowhere else, and no-one else to discuss this with.

And I wasn't rejected.
If anyone was disgusted (which is their right) they kept their own counsel.

This place. Pretty damn good.
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Old 03-30-2010, 03:13 PM   #102
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The Cellar gave me somewhere to talk about my sexual exploits.
I had nowhere else, and no-one else to discuss this with.

And I wasn't rejected.
If anyone was disgusted (which is their right) they kept their own counsel.

This place. Pretty damn good.
Not rejected, no. Admired. Revered. Envied.
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Old 03-30-2010, 04:19 PM   #103
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Not rejected, no. Admired. Revered. Envied.
ok, j...ust how many of you women have this group sex fantasy?
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Old 03-30-2010, 04:46 PM   #104
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Why, Jim, you lookin to arrange a gtg? :P
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Old 03-30-2010, 10:40 PM   #105
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The Cellar gave me somewhere to talk about my sexual exploits.
I had nowhere else, and no-one else to discuss this with.

And I wasn't rejected.
If anyone was disgusted (which is their right) they kept their own counsel.

This place. Pretty damn good.
Disgusted? Jealous is more like it.
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