Sunrise

Saw this pretty neat looking sunrise on my way home from work this morning. Why did I see a sunrise on my way home from work? Because my freaking relief was late for the second day in a row.

Okay, in all fairness, I don't know that he was officially late today. Yesterday he showed up at 7:10, which is officially late, according to hospital policy. Today, though, we had a call at 6:52am. At a job where this is a hazard, it's sort of an unwritten rule that shift change is at 6:45, 6:50 at the latest. This gives time for whatever report of the previous shift needs to be given to the oncoming crew, and plus avoids (in some cases) having a last minute call that will hold you over your alotted 12 hour shift.

That said, I had a call at 6:52am today and no relief. So we went on the call. It was an auto accident and there ended up being nobody who wanted to go to the hospital. Unfortunately, one of the vehicles was up on the guardrail and leaking gasoline, so we had to hang out on scene anyway. It was about 7:25am when there was another medical emergency in Aston Township (where I was working). So the fire chief told the dispatcher that we could be made available to respond to that call. Thanks. At that point, our relief finally called us on the phone and asked if we wanted them to meet us at the scene of this next call so we could go home. "Ummm... YES."

As luck would have it - in addition to being able to stay at work for a half hour extra, I was also able to catch all of the morning rush traffic on I-95. There were no less than 20 times when traffic just came to a complete stop for no reason whatsoever other than sheer volume. That's awesome. Happy Wednesday, everyone.