False Alarm

It's only 12:15pm and I've already been ignored, hung up on, yelled at by belligerent customers, mini-lectured by the boss and had the fire engine come by. Wow, what a morning. I doubt the afternoon is going to be able to beat this one.

I'll talk about the fire department incident because it involves cute guys. :)

So after all the hoopla around the office, as I was finally settling down to make a phone call to the post office to see if I want to pickup the package I apparently have on hold (I wish they'd put a note about WHOM the package is from because I really was not expecting this. Called my brother-in-law to check if it it was from my sister, but it seems like a negative from that end). I digress.

So the employees from the next office came over to tell us an alarm has been set off in the warehouse above their head. I really didn't think much of it due to the construction that's happening in the warehouse on the OTHER side of the company. So I got my boss, he called up the foreman and set to figure it out. Now this took a little time because my boss got an important call on his cell. So the employees from the other side got antsy and came over again. I could have called the foreman myself since I knew he had just come in and was sitting at his desk upstairs, but didn't want to overstep my bounds. They were worried about the fire and police department showing up and all that. Finally, as the foreman got the call a 2nd employee came over with the fax from the alarm company stating that it was triggered by something from OUR side of the building. (all these system are linked somehow or other). So the foreman went off to take care of it, everyone left the office and I settled back down at my desk.

Now, back home I would be more "aware" of sirens blaring down the street coming closer and closer. But here in LA county with our office facing a semi-large street I'm used to it. There's hardly a week that goes by that I don't hear the sirens blaring as officers race down Western Ave. But this time it was different. Didn't notice that the sirens had STOPPED, not just faded down the street, until this big shiny red glare reflected off my monitor. I looked to the right, out of my window I see a BIG HUGE RED FIRE ENGINE parked in our lot.

Then out steps this ULTRA CUTE FIREFIGHTER! Okay, I don't usually fall for those calendars featuring uber sexy bods of firefighters/law enforcement officer etc. I think somehow are always so skeptical of them due to the fact that the ones we see back home on television tend to have them more Mario Bros. looking like, which leads me to believe those calendar materials are just paid models. (Plus the fact that having one of those in my flat would just TOTALLY wigg me out...so creepy).

Anyhow, problem solved, the engine full of very nice looking firefighters plus the yummy guy left. (ha! my first time being able to call a guy "yummy")

The rest of the day went on fairly normally. Ah, what a way to brighten my other wise dull day :)