Just one of those days ...

Well.

When it rains it pours, eh?

Today started out like any other... I woke at 5am, had a coffee and browsed the internet for a while, and got dressed.

Then came getting out of the car to go to work ...

Flash dropped Joshie at daycare, and the little fella didnt want to go in, which was unusual, but after a threat to take down his xmas tree he went in.

Flash dropped me at the corner so I could do coffee before work, and I nearly fell ass over tit four times before crossing the street on bloody ice.

I get to work and get in to a heated discussion with a coworker who is just a moron, over my low opinion on our IT department ... I had to solve a problem for one of our VP's who is having troubles with his 2008 version of Office and the documents not being compatible with 2003 Office -- easy solve, I had it fixed in 30 seconds -- the IT guys couldn't figure it out in a day.

She hotly suggested that not everyone is as "rich" as I am (WTF?????) and don't have computers to "know" about the docx problem .... Correct me if I am wrong, but IT guys have computers and access to the internet, right? The Docx thing has been a topic of discussion for a while ...

So after I got steamed at her suggesting I am a rich bitch (which I still don't get, because I'm not rich) I settle for work...

The call from daycare ... Josh had an accident and I need to take him to hospital.

I scramble, phone Flash at work and have him call daycare for the info (they are vietnamese, and I don't speak viet) ... They tell Flash Josh has broken his arm.

Shit ....

I tell the stupidvisor I have to leave, then we hightail it to daycare ... all the while I am a stress mess wondering how a 3 year old can break a bone ...

We get there, Joshie is a blubbering mess, but the injury is to his finger. Swollen and black we take him to the ER -- just to be cautious.

While we wait for the triage, a paranoid schitzophrenic shows up ... yes, definitely schitz, and definitely paranoid. She (i think it was a she) starts first on Joshie, ranting that Josh is picking a fight with s/he by looking at her.

Then she starts bitching out Flash ... but not to Flash. This is the scary thing. She was a foot behind me and talking to herself about killing Flash and how he is a schitz and is a bad father, and how dare he have a wife and kid ... blah blah ... BUT . When talking to herself, she was answering herself.

WITH TWO DISTINCT DIFFERENT VOICES!!!!!

Okay ... okay ... we ignore it. Flash is slowly but quietly seething over the insult to his parenting and ignoring the death threats ... then we get whished off to waiting with the little man.

Five minutes later she appears in the room.

All is okay for a few moments. She tries to converse with Josh, who was playing, and gets in his personal space, to which Josh got annoyed with, but politely continued.... I move down to play with Josh to put a barrier in between them, and she moves to another seat.

Then she starts on Flash. Starts with the conversation with herself about him being a judgemental ass and a horrible father and a schitz, blah blah.

Flash reads a magazine and ignores her...

Until ... until ...

She actually lashes out verbally at him! She starts outright accusing him of thinking she is a crack addict and what not leaving Flash with no recourse but to answer her .... I look up and shake my head, but he calmly answers her questions and makes hismistake.

She growls at him and asks him for the third time if he thinks she uses crack. He flicked a brow, crossed his arms, and said, gently ... "I don't know, do you?"

Oh yeah ... wrong thing. The woman goes feral.

Then we get saved by the nurse, who whisks us to another room.

Joshie is given the okay and we're told it's a soft tissue injury and he is okay to go home.

Poor Flash wanders past the wierd woman's room and she starts yelling at him from in there!

We hightailed it out of the place and took Joshie to buy him a toy and some advil.

We get home, and my favourite ex-workmate send me an email saying that he has to cancel lunch because he's in critical with his mom, who just had a car accident ... No word yet on her condition.

It's 6pm, now .. I hope it's all over now.

I think I'll grab a beer

SJ

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Thanks GG, I am sitting by the computer waiting on word about his mum. He's in his 60's, so she has to be in her 80's ... I am desperately hoping for the best.

I want it known that I understand and am toleratant toward "challenged" people. I am not out to sound like I think they should all be locked away from the general populous or anything ... or that I don't understand the problems, because I do.

I am also not saying "schitz" as a derogatory term -- I honestly believe this was her condition.

I understand and respect it ...

I have had some horrific run ins though, one was when I was 8 months pregnant with Josh and one of them pushed me down the stairs of the bus. I held on to my anger even while he stepped over me while I was on all fours at the curb ...

This incident at the hospital was actually scary and I feel so bad about that. But the death threats while I was holding my injured toddler really frightened me.

I'm glad my little man is okay, though .... That really scared me when Flash told me what daycare thought had happened ...

Boys will be boys, though ... I imagine it is only the first of what will be many trips to the ER with my rambunctious little monkey as he grows up ..

SJ

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Wow...you have had quite a day! Thank goodness Josh didn't break his finger! Hang in there, baybee!

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Bloody hell, after a day like that, it will be a relief to get into bed.

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Originally posted by Condorfan quote: Originally posted by Metaliant But IT people who don't know about computers? I must admit, my knowledge is brilliant but I think I could muddle through better than them. Have they been taught IT from Zark by any chance? Good one Met! I too have been at places where I swear they were hired either by being a relative of the boss or sleeping with the boss because they are so stupid. Unfortunately, stupidity is commodity we will never run out of. Be proud of yourself SJ that you knew what to do. I don't know how to convert documents from one type of MS Office to the other. Glad to hear that Josh will be OK and hope your coworker's mother will be OK too.

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It's a pity that the weekend is short though.

Glad that the sanity or insanity is back to normal.

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