Obnixious little box did it's BEEP, BEEP, BEEP thing!

[Randy43068]

I never, NEVER liked my pager going off. It meant that someone was in real trouble.

Does that mean that I NEEDED a different job? I think not.

Gary, with all due respect... I think you should consider hanging it up.

It seems many of your threads are titled in a similar vein.

When I person begins to dread hearing the pager it is long past time to find another line of work.

 

[adurso]

Gary I know what you mean. I carried a pager, 2 cell phones and a police radio everywhere I went for 20 years. When they could not get me on any of those they called on VHF channel 16 knowing I was on the water. Some days the dispatchers could not get anything right, and sometimes it was my guys (I ended up a boss). In any case gripe on! I always said my guys were not happy unless they had something to complain about! My wife is a retired police officer also, so you should have heard some of the complaint sessions at our house after some monumental screw ups....

 

[Randy43068]

200 years?
:11:

I'll bet that it felt like that at times.

R.

Gary I know what you mean. I carried a pager, 2 cell phones and a police radio everywhere I went for 20 years. When they could not get me on any of those they called on VHF channel 16 knowing I was on the water. Some days the dispatchers could not get anything right, and sometimes it was my guys (I ended up a boss). In any case gripe on! I always said my guys were not happy unless they had something to complain about! My wife is a retired police officer also, so you should have heard some of the complaint sessions at our house after some monumental screw ups....

 

[Blitz]

I liked my pager going off..... then again, I was 20, in the Army and jumped out of airplanes for a living. I tell myself that I have since wisened up.

 

[Gary D.]

I liked my pager going off..... then again, I was 20, in the Army and jumped out of airplanes for a living. I tell myself that I have since wisened up.

Put it this way, I like the pager going off because it means some excitement. On the same note I hate it going off because someone is most likely in the process of losing his or her life.

It has to be the true definition of mixed emotions. Besides I’m a drug addict. I’ll come out of the closet and admit it; I’m an Adrenalin junkie.

Gary D.

 

[pipedope]

Gotta feed the rat!

I understand the 'good news, bad news' part.