Don't Always Believe the TV Reporters!

There was a fire north of us this week that brought the big-city TV crews and choppers to town. One station doing a live update with a reporter in the news van via mobile phone on his way to the site while showing footage from the chopper.

We were watching and heard the reporter say he was coming from the south (he gave the incorrect Interstate he had taken, too!) and that he could see the smoke (lie, lie, lie). Then he said he was at a certain intersection and that an ambulance just passed him. That intersection was one block south of us and we could not see the smoke, so we knew he was not telling the truth! We watched him drive by telling his lies!

As a sidenote.... why, oh why, do the reporters interview the most stupid redneck people they can find when there's a big story???? I think that even in the middle of Beverly Hills.... they would find someone to fit that description to interview.....

Where's the Energizer Bunny When You Need Him?

I (Cat) freelance in graphic design. I received an e-mail from a client yesterday evening asking me to call ASAP. I did, but it was faster than he expected since I was at work.

I could tell there was something going on in the background when I called. He said their smoke alarm was going off and they didn't know how to change it so they called the fire department. The alarm wasn't going off as in "there's a fire." The alarm was beeping as in "change the battery."

He, his wife, and two teenage sons.... together they could not figure out how to change a smoke alarm battery! I suppose if you run a successful business you don't need to know such things.....

No, It's Just my Hobby.....

The stupidity goes beyond these walls and comes in through the phones!

It was after hours and The Dog answered the Department phone as she walked by. The caller asked "Do you work there?"

Wanted to reply, "No. I just enjoy answering phones." .... but did not.....