Thursday, August 04, 2005
The Twelfth Day
Prologue
Picking up from where this blog left off last week, Monday was the beginning of a very long couple of days, with all kinds of new friends and new experiences. The next few days consisted of this new "after-work crew" hanging out at Rec Room, Life Café, and Kellogs. After 11 days of straight working and hardly being home, here I sit (finally), relaxing on the eleventh day.
White Smoke
Late on Wednesday night, Mike asked me to work on Thursday for an early shift. Now, Thursday is my day off but I was down for the extra hours because I really needed the cash. So I agreed to be there bright an early, and went to dinner at White Castle with the Soto, Salty & Lori.
Well, I head to work early Thursday morning when my car overheats on North Conduit Avenue. Yes, that's right.... my brand new car broke down. Well, I let the car cool off and manage to make it to base by 7:30 AM with a plume of white smoke rising from the sides of my hood, looking like the the locomotive to the Bushwick Avenue Express.
I was supposed to be at work by 7:00 AM to drive an ALS unit, but now I was too late so they sent me out with this guy Abe Jaffe. It was a good tour, but I was definetly in a shitty mood cuz of my car problems.
Back At The Bars
That night we went out to the Rec Room again, and hung out with - who else - Salty, Soto, Ryan, Lori, Crystal and Cindy! René and Monique showed up later and that made the night even better.
As the night progressed people started going home unitl it was just Soto, Lori and Myself waiting for Meza to join us. We walked over to Life for dinner when Soto got a call about working the overnight tour with Ivylesse on the BLS unit.
Stethoscope Drama
Just as Soto was finishing his food, this crackhead who had been chilling at The Rec Room comes in to pick up some food and notices us sitting by the windows. He turns and says, "You guys forgot your stethoscopes, and I'm keeping one."
Well, we all thought he was kidding. However, he really kept one and took off on his bike. The three of us stood there in disbelief for a few minutes and Soto went back to base to work. Lori and I stayed behind waiting for Meza, and with his help ending up retrieving our lost artifact.
Touring With Lori
I learned earlier that night that I would be driving a long distance transport to Arlington, Virgina on Friday morning. So I decided to sleep over at the base since I had no transportation.
Lori decided she wanted to work that job with me as well, so we spent the night at the base in 361. I woke up at around 7:30 in the morning and started getting ready for the day ahead. Lori was dead asleep and I had to wake her up because the temperature in the back of the ambulance was become hazardous to her health.
Once we hit the road and were almost over by our pickup destination, the call got 87'ed. So we ended up working a regular local tour together.
An Off-Duty MVA
After our tour, Lori and I were hanging around the base when Meza asked us to do him a favor and drive over to the BP Station on Metro and give the crew that was there another gas card because theirs was malfunctioning.
As we pulled around the corner, we noticed the flashing lights in the middle of the street and two of our guys extricating a passenger from the backseat of a old Buick that had collided with left-turning Nissan. We rolled up with our lights and the medic asked us to transport the pediatric patient that had been in the other vehicle.
We went over to Wykoff Heights Hospital and got back to base after midnight. Lori was nice enough to drive me home that night.
Living at The Base
Little did I know that the following night would mark the beginning of my living at base for a few days.
We had all planned on going out again that night; so after I finished my Saturday tour with Ryan, I hung out in Operations with Diane until everyone got back from their tours.
We went out to Van Gogh's again and then back to Life to met up with Pierre. Cindy got madd sick (details here) and disappeared at one point. I found her sitting on someones stoop all sick.
Soto borrowed Lori's car to drive Salty, Cindy, and Crystal home. I stayed behind and then Soto and I went to base, chilled with Lynn and waited for Lori to return from driving Pierre home. Then we all fell asleep in 395. (Pictures from this night can be found in the album entitled Bar Hopping.)
Dave Matthews
In the morning, we woke up and got ready for our standby at the Dave Matthews concert.
The concert was a lot of fun, and Black Eyed Peas was great. I never got to watch Dave matthews because things started getting hectic towards the end of the night. I had one patient with a broken arm, and another one that was found unconscious. (Photos)
After the concert, it was so late that I decided to attempt to drive my car home. Crystal and I got stranded over by JFK, and decided that our best bet was to head back to base and spend the night there.
Meza hooked it up and we stayed downstairs in the gym/lounge.
Back on the LIRR
The next few days were my ordinary run of the mill days. Pierre was nice enough to drive over to the Jamaica LIRR station, since his unit does the overnight Jamaica standby.
Last night, I called Major World and had my car towed back to the service department. Then we ended up at Van Gogh's again, with Cin, Ry, Soto, Salt, Lor, and Crys. We hung out for a good while and watched the Mets loose the ball game. Afterwards Lori dropped me off at Penn Station.
As I waited on the station platform for my train, I ended up having a conversation with a Police Academy recruit who was also going home out to The Island. She asked me if I ever thought about going into PD and I told her I wasn't against the idea and about how I thought it would be awesome to work ESU.
We talked the whole way and she kept saying I should be a cop and I kept telling her I'd think about it. LOL.
Bummy Day
Today I slept till 1 PM and just lay around, watched three episodes of Star Trek, downloaded music, and updated this long ass blog. Tomorrow is Friday, so I'm sure I'll find myself hanging somewhere.
I'll update sooner next time. This was a whole lot of writing.
Doc Out.
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Picking up from where this blog left off last week, Monday was the beginning of a very long couple of days, with all kinds of new friends and new experiences. The next few days consisted of this new "after-work crew" hanging out at Rec Room, Life Café, and Kellogs. After 11 days of straight working and hardly being home, here I sit (finally), relaxing on the eleventh day.
White Smoke
Late on Wednesday night, Mike asked me to work on Thursday for an early shift. Now, Thursday is my day off but I was down for the extra hours because I really needed the cash. So I agreed to be there bright an early, and went to dinner at White Castle with the Soto, Salty & Lori.
Well, I head to work early Thursday morning when my car overheats on North Conduit Avenue. Yes, that's right.... my brand new car broke down. Well, I let the car cool off and manage to make it to base by 7:30 AM with a plume of white smoke rising from the sides of my hood, looking like the the locomotive to the Bushwick Avenue Express.
I was supposed to be at work by 7:00 AM to drive an ALS unit, but now I was too late so they sent me out with this guy Abe Jaffe. It was a good tour, but I was definetly in a shitty mood cuz of my car problems.
Back At The Bars
That night we went out to the Rec Room again, and hung out with - who else - Salty, Soto, Ryan, Lori, Crystal and Cindy! René and Monique showed up later and that made the night even better.
As the night progressed people started going home unitl it was just Soto, Lori and Myself waiting for Meza to join us. We walked over to Life for dinner when Soto got a call about working the overnight tour with Ivylesse on the BLS unit.
Stethoscope Drama
Just as Soto was finishing his food, this crackhead who had been chilling at The Rec Room comes in to pick up some food and notices us sitting by the windows. He turns and says, "You guys forgot your stethoscopes, and I'm keeping one."
Well, we all thought he was kidding. However, he really kept one and took off on his bike. The three of us stood there in disbelief for a few minutes and Soto went back to base to work. Lori and I stayed behind waiting for Meza, and with his help ending up retrieving our lost artifact.
Touring With Lori
I learned earlier that night that I would be driving a long distance transport to Arlington, Virgina on Friday morning. So I decided to sleep over at the base since I had no transportation.
Lori decided she wanted to work that job with me as well, so we spent the night at the base in 361. I woke up at around 7:30 in the morning and started getting ready for the day ahead. Lori was dead asleep and I had to wake her up because the temperature in the back of the ambulance was become hazardous to her health.
Once we hit the road and were almost over by our pickup destination, the call got 87'ed. So we ended up working a regular local tour together.
An Off-Duty MVA
After our tour, Lori and I were hanging around the base when Meza asked us to do him a favor and drive over to the BP Station on Metro and give the crew that was there another gas card because theirs was malfunctioning.
As we pulled around the corner, we noticed the flashing lights in the middle of the street and two of our guys extricating a passenger from the backseat of a old Buick that had collided with left-turning Nissan. We rolled up with our lights and the medic asked us to transport the pediatric patient that had been in the other vehicle.
We went over to Wykoff Heights Hospital and got back to base after midnight. Lori was nice enough to drive me home that night.
Living at The Base
Little did I know that the following night would mark the beginning of my living at base for a few days.
We had all planned on going out again that night; so after I finished my Saturday tour with Ryan, I hung out in Operations with Diane until everyone got back from their tours.
We went out to Van Gogh's again and then back to Life to met up with Pierre. Cindy got madd sick (details here) and disappeared at one point. I found her sitting on someones stoop all sick.
Soto borrowed Lori's car to drive Salty, Cindy, and Crystal home. I stayed behind and then Soto and I went to base, chilled with Lynn and waited for Lori to return from driving Pierre home. Then we all fell asleep in 395. (Pictures from this night can be found in the album entitled Bar Hopping.)
Dave Matthews
In the morning, we woke up and got ready for our standby at the Dave Matthews concert.
The concert was a lot of fun, and Black Eyed Peas was great. I never got to watch Dave matthews because things started getting hectic towards the end of the night. I had one patient with a broken arm, and another one that was found unconscious. (Photos)
After the concert, it was so late that I decided to attempt to drive my car home. Crystal and I got stranded over by JFK, and decided that our best bet was to head back to base and spend the night there.
Meza hooked it up and we stayed downstairs in the gym/lounge.
Back on the LIRR
The next few days were my ordinary run of the mill days. Pierre was nice enough to drive over to the Jamaica LIRR station, since his unit does the overnight Jamaica standby.
Last night, I called Major World and had my car towed back to the service department. Then we ended up at Van Gogh's again, with Cin, Ry, Soto, Salt, Lor, and Crys. We hung out for a good while and watched the Mets loose the ball game. Afterwards Lori dropped me off at Penn Station.
As I waited on the station platform for my train, I ended up having a conversation with a Police Academy recruit who was also going home out to The Island. She asked me if I ever thought about going into PD and I told her I wasn't against the idea and about how I thought it would be awesome to work ESU.
We talked the whole way and she kept saying I should be a cop and I kept telling her I'd think about it. LOL.
Bummy Day
Today I slept till 1 PM and just lay around, watched three episodes of Star Trek, downloaded music, and updated this long ass blog. Tomorrow is Friday, so I'm sure I'll find myself hanging somewhere.
I'll update sooner next time. This was a whole lot of writing.
Doc Out.
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