Short
Today felt like a week.
We're awfully busy at work, lately.
Here's why.
Plus, like eight million other things.
I can SEE again!
Interesting tidbit:
Me: "Doc, can you tell from the machines if my eyes actually change, or if I'm just being fickle? Because sometimes you ask me to choose 'A' or 'B' and it's a total coin toss."
Doc: "It really only matters when I'm consulting someone for Lasik. Then we do the test five or six different times to check for consistency."
Dear friends, I need a dose of you this weekend.
We can play with my new keychain breathalizer.
And go to museums, and swim in pools, and that other thing.. and.. and...
Mary, go to bed.
Re the keychain breathalyzer ... that reminds me of a funny thing I used to encounter once in a while back in th'day, when I worked for Big Insurance Company. What would happen is: I would be handling a claim for someone who wrecked their car in a NOV (no other vehicle) collision. Often the story was that a deer jumped out in front of them on a dark road late at night and they had to swerve off the road to avoid hitting it, and they swerved into a tree, or a fence, or a ravine that did undercarriage damage, or what-have-you. And then later I would get a call from the auto-damage appraiser whom I had dispatched to inspect the car, photograph it and write a damage estimate so that we could figure out how much to pay the customer. And the appraiser would tell me, in an amused voice, that there was a state-issued, court-mandated "breathalyzer" connected to the ignition of the car that one had to blow into in order to start the car. The underwriting dept was always very interested to learn of the existence of this kind of device on a policyholder's car!
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A good friend's dad once convinced a cop that he was speeding because he was trying to "outrun" a deer on the side of the road. I think the cop bought it because we lived in a pretty deer-infested area (cute, but dangerous). My keychain is personally rather than state mandated. I know what feels ok for me to drive, but I really have no earthly idea how that would register.
ReplyDeleteI once volunteered myself as a drinker in a training exercise for some police cadets. I sat in a room with the other designated drinkers, our rides home, and a bunch of cops. They had us drink for a while, gave us a breathalizer, and then brought in all the cadets to practice the roadside tests (walk the line, follow the pen with your eyes, stand on one foot, etc...). Now I know what specific signs they are looking for in each test, and the friendly cops gave me advice on how to not get caught if I did get pulled over while drunk. The best part though, was that my .12 BAC totally fooled those rookie cops. Only 2 groups out of 8 said they would have arrested me, and that was only because they knew that everybody getting tested was drunk (Which seems like blatent cheating to me... Gotta get some sober people in there as controls for your experiment.)
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Wait, you say "once" like this happened in some other lifetime. You've only been of legal age a year! (p.s. happy almost birthday.) You mean to tell me those rookie cops let a minor in on their experiment AND failed to arrest you? Boggling. That's my bro. Love. <3
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