Summer seems to have come late to this next of the woods, yesterday the weather was fabulous, wall to wall sunshine and a warmth not felt since last summer.
Sunshine for me however isn’t a thing to be celebrated, firstly because I’m fair skinned I burn to a crisp at the merest site of a bit of sunlight, but also because it brings out the idiots who fall over drunk and then phone us up and give us hastle demanding their ambulance and demanding it NOW!
But last night was almost eirely quite, only a few drunks and only one regular caller claiming she had drunk nine bottles of vodka. Everyone else actually needed an ambulance for serious problems.
Everyone in the room found themselves sat there bored, the Chinese takeaway meals were actually eaten hot, conversations could be held and finished with little interruption, dispatchers had enough crews to cover all the jobs and some crews were even complaining of having nothing to do. It was weird.
As call takers and dispatchers we are so geared up to all out insanity on a Friday and Saturday night that anything else is a disappointment.
Surely it can’t last….can it?
That IS unusual! Pleasant change to eat hot food though!