Blessed Are The Pacemakers

[void150]

I visited my grandmother again yesterday evening. She’s doing well after the operation but is still not living entirely in the real world and won’t be out until early next week at the earliest. No more men outside the window with cameras, but she has persistent fantasies that an ex-daughter-in-law who divorced my uncle back in the eighties is

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[syzygy]

When my grandmother was in the hospital she got a little odd, and my mom said that hospitals often make people loopy, and that after she gave birth to me she got a little loopy herself, etc...

[void150]

Yeah, that certainly seems to be the case here. Fortunately I've never spent more than a few hours in hospital at a time, despite having an accident-prone life, but I expect I'd start following the family tradition if I did!

[elfgirljen]

I have now been issued my 'survival box', containing two glosticks (green, I think), an energy bar and numerous other fun trinkets to fiddle with while I'm being killed by an Al Qaeda suicide bomber and must be kept in my desk drawer at all times for such an emergency."

blinks eyes several times. Okay then

[void150]

That was pretty much my reaction!

They made me sign a document to say that "the survival boxes are company property and must be returned intact in the event of me leaving the company - unless any items have been used for their official purpose." Or, in other words, if I have actually been blown up. What considerate employers I have!