Most of my dear (dozen) readers know by now that my job is nothing if not interesting. There is lots of down time considering the nature of my job, but I find all of the assessments I do fascinating. Granted, I hear plenty of tragic stories, and some situations just want to make ME jump off a bridge, but occasionally* I talk to some geniunely intriguing characters.
Like a television star.
Say you: You lie.
Say me: It's absolutely true.
I even Googled the guy to verify he was telling me the truth, because you can't just blithely throw out that you're a STAR and not expect me to follow up on the matter the very moment I have access to a computer with high speed internet. I mean, come on! I'm not made of stone. (I'm fairly certain I removed the skid marks on the floor by the computer I use. I'd better double check, though. Those ER nurses can be....well.....persnickity.)
So, there I was, in the hospital room nodding and "hmm-mmmm-ing" and saying all the right things in all the right places (Oh, all right. I listened to him too. Geez.), when the guy throws out that he had been on a famous television series. I even got the whole back story. Just like a producer! I must say I felt quite important sauntering out of that ER room that day. And the dude waited to tell ME and not the doctor who came before me. I win!
Say you: Was he really on a famous TV show? Some lame show on local cable channel with a viewing audience of 784 doesn't count, either.
Say me: Indeed he was. Google Fact Finder verified in no uncertain terms that my guy was on Unsolved Mysteries. He was cured of a chronic illness after a strange event--but I can't go into any further details. Confidentiality and all. ->
*Self disclosure (this is one of those clinical tactics social workers use to make one feel comfortable so one will open up and share their feelings. In the blogging world this translates into: leave comments, damn it!): I'm over 40 years old and I just learned to spell that word this year. And I still screw it up half the time.
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23 Jun 2009 1:39 PM
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