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The Things You Say . . . They're Unbelievable

The day after I moved, I told one of my co-workers that I had woke up and thought, "Where am I?"  My co-worker said, "I woke up this morning and thought, Who's she?  And who's her friend?"           While doing a Vebal De-escalation and Containment training I was demonstrating how to get away from someone who is biting you.  Almost all the releases require a volunteer to help demonstrate, except this one.  I said, "The next part is releases from bites, but I don't need someone to bite me."  One of the staff said, "Someone might like that too much!" "I like fast cars and fast men." "I thought it was psycho men." One of my co-workers was talking about being tired because he was old.  I think he may have meant to say that it was hard to be excited about listening to a trainer when youre geriatric, but what he actually said was, "It's hard when you're androgynous."  Another co-worker and I sta

Weird Day

So here was my day in a nutshell: *My boss and I stopped for coffee this morning at a place called "Pretzel Logic."  It was literally a shack with bars on the window.  We went in and I immediately looked to see what types of pretzels they had.  The answer to that question?  None.  No pretzels.  It had hamburgers, breakfast sandwiches, bagels, you name it. But zero pretzels.  Really, not even the hard mini kind.   *Got CPR/First Aid certified.  Yay!  Good for two more years. *Went back to work and our CEO shows up.  Guess what?  I am the company wide Employee of the Month.  He gave me a really nice letter and a $250 bonus. *Then the sink exploded.  Well, it didn't really explode, but that's how the staff described it.  I'm not a plumber, so I can't really describe what was wrong without using the word "thingy" a lot, but it was the first time that I ever got to turn off the main water valve.  We couldn't turn it off under the sink because