Appease my curiousity, please.

[featherynscale]

I woke up this morning feeling vaguely like I'd been hit by a bus. I wandered around, took a shower, wondered if I were ill and should call in to work, and then I realized that I wasn't ill, I was just mad. And I don't think one can call in mad to work, which is sort of a shame. Might cut down on office shooting sprees. I wasn't that mad, of course, but you get the idea.

Anyway, this reminded me of redbelle27's icon about calling in queer. And that made me wonder. I've never successfully called in for anything other than illness, car trouble, or flights delayed/stuck out of town. I've faked it, but even then, I faked one of those things. Have any of you lot ever successfully called in for anything unusual? Called in crazy? Called in dead? "Too mellow to be bothered to go to work today"?

Also, how come there's a mood icon for "crappy", but not one for "interested" or "intrigued"?

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[adammaker.livejournal.com]

I called into New York Telephone and told them that I needed to take a personal day.

They asked me why, and I told them that I had handled a 6-car pileup as a EMT last night, and after I got off duty from the ambulance corps, I had started drinking.
Told them I could not come to work, as I was too drunk to drive the drillrig. (or anything else)
-=-
There was more than one reason I ceased being a medic.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Wow.

As an experience, that's awful. As a story about unlikely reasons to call in to work, though, it's pretty good.

Hugs, cookies, and stress-tabs to you, my friend.

Also, how long were you an EMT? Was it in Kansas City?

From the years of Blood and Sirens...

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

1988-1993 New York City and some Upstate NY
Mostly in Bedford Stuy, Bay Ridge and around Staten Island.

I hear Bed-Stuy is a nice place now, but it was not always that way:

From Billy Joel's "You may be right"
I've been stranded in the combat zone
I walked through Bedford Stuy alone
Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane

Re: From the years of Blood and Sirens...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You know, I could never make out what that line was.

Also, being as you were here before me, I had somehow worked out in my head that you were a local boy, but I suppose that's not the case.