A couple of guys that work in our Scotland office came in today for 2 days of assessing how our systems are configured and to see if they can help me with some bizarre problems we are having that tech support cannot help with. I escorted them to our area and showed them around a bit. I left them to get their laptops booted up and check e-mail and started on my problem of the hour. A minute later Barrie and Alan were in my cube presenting me with a bottle of 12 year old Scotch and a box of shortbread. Awesome! I have never met these guys in person before. I was really shocked.
Not only was I running around with my normal duties and meetings all day, but I was catering to them, answering questions and demonstrating how we do things. It was a really tiring day. We worked later than I normally work, but we were really making progress on identifying a database problem I am having. Last week when they were still planning this trip invited me out to dinner for tonight. I have the kids this week, but tonight is the night my ex was taking the boys to dinner. PERFECT!
We went to one of my favorite restaurants downtown. Barrie wanted to sample all of the beers that they brew. There were only 2 of the 10 he didn't care for. We all ordered the same meal, the chef's ribeye special for the night. The waiter thought that they might be out so he went right back and checked. They were out, but the chef decided that since we all wanted it he would make up some more special. DAMN IT WAS GOOD!!!!
I came home and watched a couple episodes of Firefly with my kids, then my brother called laughing his ass off. He just got a new puppy last week and apparently the pup got a hold of the cordless phone. Mike heard the sound of the buttons being pressed, quickly yelled "NOOO, NOOO!" and grabbed the phone from Penalope (don't ask). A minute later his phone rang. Apparently the dog had dialed 911, the operator answered and heard my brother yell "NOOO, NOOO!" before getting hung up on. Of course she dispatched police to his house right away (standard policy for any hang ups to 911).Mike explained the situation to the 911 operator which made her howl.
The police arrived rather quickly. Mike again explained what happened. The cops laughed and wanted to see the dog that could dial 911. They checked out the rest of the house of course before laughing their way back to the squad car.
I laughed so hard I got a headache.
6 comments:
sounds like a good time had by all!
as regards the "911 dog" be glad no one had video cam going *L*
Oh hell, I wish I would have had a camera there.
Hahahah! Thats hilarious! It good that the emergency crew had a sense of humour towards a dog that can dial 911 as well :)
Hahahhaa, I looooove puppies, so this story made me laugh like a maniac.
Thanks for the morning laugh, I really needed it!
what absolutely makes the story is that all the dispatcher heard was "noooo! noooo!"...couldn't be more perfect.
LMAO!
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