Things I do

This is the story of how I accidentally took a sleeping pill at work.

So, here I am at work yesterday, as emergency dispatch. I am tired and have a sore throat. I think to myself, self, there is some aspirin and such in the drawer there, maybe there is some kind of cough drop. So I am rooting around looking for a cough drop, and find a bottle of chewable peppermint pills. This sounds good, I think to myself, chewable, perhaps soothing, I like peppermint. I have eaten a pill and am examining the bottle when two things happen at once. One, I realize that the bottle says to take these as a sleep aid, only at bedtime. Two, the phone rings with an emergency call. I then take two emergency calls at once.

I love my life sometimes.