Sorrylol
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here. I’ve had some stuff going on. Some bad family news, which turned out to be OK within about a day and an extremely hectic/annoying/irritating experience at my house in Tacoma.
And I have been working alot. So it’s a good thing I didn’t sign on to do the post-a-day thing.
Randomness:
Be careful with social media. One of my first weeks at the TNT, I put up a Facebook status saying I had a byline in a competing paper (through AP) and was made fun of/put in my place the next morning by the boss. And a week ago I referenced Lawrence.com’s Randy in a Facebook status, saying that I am going to have to get two jobs “cause babies ain’t free.” (Jacob and Victor should know, everyone else should click here) Within a day, my aunt asked if I had told everyone that I was going to be a father, an editor at work was asking around and Ingrid thought I was going to be a baby’s daddy.
Lesson learned.
And finally today, we turn to me ripping Jacob off. I am the keeper of the portable scanner (it is awesome btw) and the local agencies can be odd. They aren’t as weird or obsessed wtih AC/DC as the Tri-Cities ones, but much more interesting than Pullman/WhitCom. Here a few things I heard in the past couple days.
- Dispatcher: “Middle-aged male, no description, standing outside flailing his arms screaming ‘Roberta.’ “
- Cop: “He’s not a happy customer, and he won’t be happy shortly either.”
- Cop: “There’s a very uncooperative woman on the phone. Oh, she hung up.”
- (A stolen car is driving down the road)
Dispatcher: “Is it occupied?” - One cop to another cop who has a juvenile in the car: “You take care of McLovin.”
- And for some reason every time they say “Tacoma rural,” it sounds like “Tacoma aroma.”
- And it seems a lot of people in the area have license plates that have William-Zebra-William or William-XRay-William.
