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Old September 25th 04, 01:32 PM
Istara
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Paul Griffiths wrote:
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Paul Griffiths wrote:

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Hey, at least you wear COLORS. I usually get sent home - if my friends
can find me - because I'm wearing such blah colors that I fade into the
background scenery. :-)

Spent much time in Special Forces have you?


(grin) Nah... Used to be a jail officer. When you're a 5-foot 4-inch
female, dealing mainly with 6-foot-plus drunken males, with an
occasional violent offender coming along for variety, the ability to do
a quick-fade becomes a survival mechanism - they can't hit you if they
can't see you, but you can sure drop them if you can catch them by
surprise.



Ooeer!

I'll just make a note of that for possible future reference, if you don't
mind.


Hehehehe... What I used to tell inmates, during in-processing - "You'll
find that I am just as nice as you will let me be. Behave, and we'll get
along just fine. Give me trouble and you'll wish you'd never met me." :-)

I generally had less trouble out of people than any of the other
jailers, though, barring our sergeant - who also was a short,
"Mom"-looking sort of person.


Unfortunately, wearing a uniform so much of the time plays hell with
a person's off-duty fashion sense, especially when they didn't have
much to start with. :-) Which I didn't.



Yeah I can see how that would work.


Now I get to wear hospital scrubs in bright colors and patterns,
starting next week... And am probably going to have to take someone
along shopping to avoid getting plain blah green. :-) Anybody wanna
going scrub shopping?



No thanks. Nothing personal but I have more than enough memories of
hospitals as it is.

Bright colours and patterns sounds like fun though.

I've had my share of time spent in hospitals, too. Never in but once for
myself (and that was childbirth, what can I say?), but I've spent more
nights than I care to count sitting watch in the cardiac unit, and the
ER, and such. I'd probably have some trouble adjusting if I had to work
in the main hospital itself, but this is a satellite clinic, day-surgery
unit with no extended care facility on premises.

And the colors and stuff DO sound fun, don't they? I talked to my
supervisor yesterday - she said the don't coordinate uniform, anymore,
so get whatever I liked.