"Midnight Shift"

A rare weekday sleepover since Mom has to work the night shift in the dementia ward at the seniors home. That's ok with me since these 2 then have to spend the night in the dementia ward that is our house.

I think that's ok though because they seem to belong here.

I worked the midnight shift for years at the mill and then at the stamping plant, and loved them both, but this beats the hell out of those times!

And whether you're demented, or whether you live on the street, or whether you're in jail or whether you're mentally handicapped, or even whether you're some poor drug addict that the cops dragged into the local emergency ward so she wouldn't kill herself, you're still a human being and should be treated as such!!!

That little tirade was motivated by a conversation that Roo overheard between some staff and some policeman at the hospital today in relation to the aforementioned young lady. They were complaining bitterly about the waste of it all.....and no... not about the waste of a human being, but rather about the waste of their precious fucking time!! It makes me alternately sad and angry. I take some comfort in the belief that this attitude is the exception not the norm amongst the caregivers in our society. Or am I just deluded?

Enough already!

Time to go and read a few chapters of Colby's current Goosebumps novel "Say Cheese And Die Screaming"! That sounds like a good dream stimulant eh?

“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."---Robert GreenIngersoll

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