Oh My God!

No, not the fact that I came across Diana's letter from the hospital inviting her to send in stool samples for bowel cancer screening next to the ice cream scoop although that did make me shudder. No, I'm referring to some of the idiots who featured in a program on the TV called '999 what's your emergency'. The program was based on the emergency services in Chester, specifically those covering the ambulance service. The folk who man the phones do 12 hour shifts and as you can imagine they deal with some really stressful and harrowing calls like the woman whose husband had passed away at just 54 and the call handler bless him just stayed on the phone till help arrived for the woman whilst she just sobbed uncontrollably. When he asked if there was anything he could do to help, she simply said 'bring him back'.

Anyway, I digress. So for every real emergency there are 2 non emergencies and whilst you can understand that people may struggle to differentiate what is a real emergency Vs a minor emergency that does not warrant an ambulance, some people just take the piss, like for example:

~ The guy who phoned to say that he was lost and needed them to come and pick him up., Not only did he not get that this was not an emergency but he couldn't grasp the fact that if he didn't know where he was, they might just struggle to find him
~ The guy who couldn't sleep because his toe was hurting
~ The guy who had an eyelash in his eye

If there was such a thing as a Darwin award for stupidity it would be really difficult choosing a winner - there are just so many contenders.

If you would like a taster, the last one is just brilliant.