The Best Fight Ever
Time: An hour before bed
Weather: Cold. Windy. Gloomy. Raining.
Mood: Somber. Exhausted.
Number Dead: Just one. One really annoying nurse.
Bullets Remaining: 98
I went into the lunch room. I have to microwave meals. These precious few minutes with the lunch bunch never cease to be the most exciting moments of my day. The microwave is humming its three minute song. As I wait, I am asked where I went for spring break. "Palm Springs," I reply. "I decided to gamble my money away."
The wretched nurse, Nurse Nan, twists her head around in an exorcist-type fashion. "There aren't casinos in Palm Springs," she knowingly informs me. Hmm. "Well, [Nurse Nan] there must be because I was just there."
"Well, I know California law and California law specifically outlaws gambling, so there's no way that you went to a casino in Palm Springs." I must have missed the memo: nurse by day, lawyer for the counsil of High and Mighty by night.
Now, wait a minute. Is she seriously accusing me of LYING about LOSING money over spring break? I repeat, "Well we just stayed at a casino and hotel there, so I'm pretty sure it exists." She is so incredulous at this thought, that she just turns back around and looks at the women sitting at the table with her to report that she knows all about California and how there was no gambling when she was there. As if confrontation with me wasn't worth the effort. I guess she just had to be right to someone. I might have tried logic on her, things like telling her which casino I was at, or even reminding her that most forms of gambling are illegal here, but we still have Indian casinos, but considering that Nurse Nan isn't worth my breath, I just focused on the humming of the microwave and started thinking of the title of this post.
Weather: Cold. Windy. Gloomy. Raining.
Mood: Somber. Exhausted.
Number Dead: Just one. One really annoying nurse.
Bullets Remaining: 98
I went into the lunch room. I have to microwave meals. These precious few minutes with the lunch bunch never cease to be the most exciting moments of my day. The microwave is humming its three minute song. As I wait, I am asked where I went for spring break. "Palm Springs," I reply. "I decided to gamble my money away."
The wretched nurse, Nurse Nan, twists her head around in an exorcist-type fashion. "There aren't casinos in Palm Springs," she knowingly informs me. Hmm. "Well, [Nurse Nan] there must be because I was just there."
"Well, I know California law and California law specifically outlaws gambling, so there's no way that you went to a casino in Palm Springs." I must have missed the memo: nurse by day, lawyer for the counsil of High and Mighty by night.
Now, wait a minute. Is she seriously accusing me of LYING about LOSING money over spring break? I repeat, "Well we just stayed at a casino and hotel there, so I'm pretty sure it exists." She is so incredulous at this thought, that she just turns back around and looks at the women sitting at the table with her to report that she knows all about California and how there was no gambling when she was there. As if confrontation with me wasn't worth the effort. I guess she just had to be right to someone. I might have tried logic on her, things like telling her which casino I was at, or even reminding her that most forms of gambling are illegal here, but we still have Indian casinos, but considering that Nurse Nan isn't worth my breath, I just focused on the humming of the microwave and started thinking of the title of this post.
posted by Unequivocal_Prowess at 6:55 PM
4 Comments:
Sorry to hear the people at work are so idiotic.
And thanks for keeping in touch. Means a lot to me.
Wow. I had no idea that Morongo, Harrah's, Barona, Hollywood Park, and the entire California Indian Gaming lobby in just don't exist.
Here's a fun game for Nurse Nan: go to Google and type in California Casinos.
What a moron.
I should have Nurse Nan's job, especially if she gets a secretary. Then we could be the lunchroom bosses... that would rock!
I think on the last day of school you need to take a laptop into the lunch room with you and just google all the shit that Nurse Nan has given her opinion on that she claims to be fact and just see how correct she is. If she's as dumb as she sounds then all the students at that school are in danger of getting extremely sick and her not knowing it. Either that, or she's going to fly off the handle and quarantine the whole damn school because she's sure there's a bird flu epidemic at PCN.
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